Oneself Quotes
1593 quotes by 950 authors
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied…
— David Bailey
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
— James A. Baldwin
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all…
— James A. Baldwin
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the…
— Saint Basil
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
— Charles Baudelaire
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
— Konrad Adenauer
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
— Walter Benjamin
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
— Henri Bergson
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One should make morals judgements for oneself.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.
— John O. Brennan
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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes…
— Julie Burchill
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And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the…
— Nicolas Cage
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
— Samuel Butler
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