I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone. — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent, — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a… — Hyman Bass Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form… — Klaus Mann Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable… — Andreas Libavius Copy Share Image
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live'… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
