Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding. — Bruce Lee
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. — Unknown Author
The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself. — Patrick McGoohan
Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself. — Carole Bouquet
While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits… — Rachel Held Evans
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting,… — Nicolas Bouvier
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human. — Andre Comte-Sponville
This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always… — Tatjana Soli
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a… — Angela Davis
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach.… — Arne Jacobsen
I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for… — Tadao Ando
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency… — Anthony Bourdain
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in… — Georges Bataille
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. — Bernard Berenson
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a deep harmony with… — Rajneesh
One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others… — Carl Jung
This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more… — Carl Rogers
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real… — Erich Fromm
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with… — Martin Heidegger
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for… — Jacques Derrida
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in… — Unknown Author
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the… — Joseph Brodsky
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life. — Ivan Turgenev

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