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Oneself Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.
- One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
- Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
- She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not…
- We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got…
- The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
- The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens…
More Oneself Quotes
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey
- 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
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
- An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI