“The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.”
Chamfort
“Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching”
Aurora Greenway
“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness”
Cesare Pavese
“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“One must not make oneself cheap here -- that is a cardinal point -- or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.”
Ramana Maharshi
“Successful self-development also involves taking more self-time to be quiet and think for oneself!”
Patrick Driessen
