“The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.” DoeEnoughSeemsSpiritFatherProcessKnowingSonProductsProtectBreathsOneselfCreatorDenyActiveReleaseTargetFactoriesDefectsSqueezingSupervisors Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.” ShouldHandsAcceptingStruggleKnowingDutyAnd LoveSuicideOneselfConquestLife And LoveFascistsKnowing Nothing Author:Benito Mussolini
“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.” GodWould BeNightOrderDiesDifficultChristKnowingMankindCrimeGoes OnGuiltOneselfInnocentInnocenceElsewhereSurvivedDay And Night Author:Albert Camus
“Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.” RealSelfLife IsDifficultPracticeKnowingTheoryOneselfReal LifeKnowing Oneself Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.” WayArtDoneKnowingClearParticularTheoryConcernPerfectionPerformancesOneselfPracticalsExplanationOccupationCalculatingPertinent Author:Gersonides
“All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.” GivingMeanTodayNamesKnowingSacrificeDemandExtraordinaryOneselfEgoism Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.” IfsNeedsShouldYearsChildrenLongImportantMatterForeverKnowingFiveTwentiesOneselfFive YearsTwenty FiveDelayedKnowing Everything Author:Laura Riding
“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.” IfsThinkingInspirationalJoyFunKnowingPositionHairPerceptionDressesOneselfCorrectionsMakeup And BeautyPerception Of Beauty Author:Kevyn Aucoin
“Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.” KnowingTeacherTeachingStudentsCommunicationOneselfExplanationExpertsColleaguesKnowing Something Author:Hyman Bass
“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.” ThinkingKnowingPerceptionOneselfMakeup And BeautyPerception Of Beauty Author:Kevyn Aucoin
“Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.” KnowingPossibilityOneselfKnowing Oneself Author:Joyce Carol Oates