“The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.”
Chamfort
“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 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
“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
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
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