Onesself Quotes

#1. I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.

Namsoon Kang

#2. You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Joan Didion

#3. We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

Nawal El Saadawi

#4. What if I don't want to be free?

Christi Caldwell

#5. Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

Maria Monk

#6. Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.

Eliphas Levi

#7. Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Storm Jameson

#8. Sometimes the best mode of transportation is a leap of faith.

M. Elaine Moore

#9. I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

Angela Cartwright

#10. If you don't take money, they can't tell you what to do.

Bill Cunningham

#11. Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.

Lauren Bacall

#12. I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luther

#13. The pressure to be quintessentially black in every moment, whether it comes from the outside world or is self-imposed, keeps black people from being our authentic selves.

Justin Simien