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.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

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.

I don't watch television I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

There is nothing like being left alone again to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing and often paradoxically it is literature that suffers for it.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.