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
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
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself. — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express… — Bruce Lee 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
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness… — Dayananda Saraswati 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
Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is,… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
