Oneself Quotes · Page 34

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

— May Sarton

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

— Ayn Rand

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

— Thomas Keating

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

— Thomas Ehrlich

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

— Carl Jung

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

— Alexandra David-Neel

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

— Virginia Woolf

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

— Iris Murdoch

The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and…

— Thomas Metzinger

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved…

— Nelson Mandela

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,…

— Leo Tolstoy

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual…

— Bertrand Russell

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central…

— George Santayana

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is…

— Aleister Crowley

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way…

— Ajahn Chah

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to…

— Joyce Carol Oates

For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish…

— Steven Pressfield

The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our…

— Dalai Lama

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means…

— Adolf Hitler

The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in…

— Chogyam Trungpa

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The…

— Naomi Wolf

Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy,…

— Susan Sontag

I had been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard in the 90's and was fascinated by the idea of the vapid consumer…

— Miles Aldridge

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So…

— Marcus Aurelius

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the…

— Edith Stein

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if…

— Anonymous

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all…

— William Ralph Inge

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

— Ignazio Silone

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master…

— Voltaire

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

— Sydney J. Harris

Seeks to grow and improve oneself through creative activity, freely expressing one’s exuberant vitality, and through warm, supportive encouragement of others.

— Stephen Arroyo

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

— Clifton Fadiman

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

— Saint Augustine

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to…

— Bernard Berenson

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

— Erich Fromm

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

— S. E. Hinton

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

— Gautama Buddha

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

— Aubrey Menen

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops…

— Friedrich Nietzsche