With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to 'Be Prepared' to meet them.
Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
It's dangerous to assert oneself.
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
