Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Eric Hoffer

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Henry Moore

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
George P. Baker

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
James Wyatt

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Mencius

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Gerald Brenan

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Kitty O'Neill Collins

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Jean Cocteau

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
Doug Coupland

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Bodhidharma

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Pope Benedict XVI

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Joseph Ratzinger

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
Anna Freud

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil