Oneself Quotes · Page 9

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

— Aleister Crowley

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature…

— George Saunders

Those who truly love and respect you will respect your boundaries. I think freeing oneself from codependency and fear is vital for…

— Maria Canals Barrera

Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.”

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

— Carrie Brownstein

“Each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

— Fanny Brice

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also…

— Carl Jung

I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even…

— May Sarton

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

— Diane Wakoski

It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go…

— Katherine Mansfield

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some…

— Robert Fitzgerald

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

— Christina, Queen of Sweden

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

— Ernst Haas

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

— Mao Zedong

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university…

— Louis L'Amour

We were looking at weather and our relationships with weather. It goes to a few other places, and I don't want to…

— Travis Rice

That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead,…

— Virginia Woolf

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

— Alan Bennett

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

— Simon Critchley