Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: life reality self learn Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. —William Hazlitt More about this quote Tags: love others power freedom self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. —Cullen Hightower More about this quote Tags: life others laughter mistakes self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: reality perception self bias self-delusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry. —Michel Leiris More about this quote Tags: poetry self thoughts dream Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. —Rudyard Kipling More about this quote Tags: self seriousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. —Paul Valéry More about this quote Tags: truth discovery knowledge error self paradox Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. —Charles Simic More about this quote Tags: self effort self-work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. —Jean Baudrillard More about this quote Tags: identity self liberation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. —Gautama Buddha More about this quote Tags: self victory self-mastery self-control conquering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our first and last love is self-love. —Christian Nestell Bovee More about this quote Tags: love self self-love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. —Cathy Guisewite More about this quote Tags: self groups conforming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: others self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. —Roy Lichtenstein More about this quote Tags: self art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happiness depends upon ourselves. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: self happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email