Occupy Yourself Quotes

• Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Imperfection, Contemplating

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.96, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Responsibility, Space

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• Above all, do not lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Literature, Knowing Myself

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Mind

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• Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Knowledge And Power

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• Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

  Ovid

  Way, Harm

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• As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, Guarantees That, Joy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Elderly

  "Cakes And Ale".

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Fiction

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

  James Purefoy

  People, Upset, Killing

  Source: collider.com

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• My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

  Jock Sturges

  Body, Might, Way

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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