Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for… — Mahatma Gandhi
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears,… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden,… — Pope John Paul II
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem… — Ralph Raico
To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement… — Edvard Grieg
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary,… — Pope John Paul II
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand… — Carl Jung
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on. — Pope Benedict XVI
I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can… — Etty Hillesum
It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good. — Pope John Paul II
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what… — Pope Benedict XVI
The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the… — Jane Frances de Chantal
I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. — Therese of Lisieux
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is… — Brenda Ueland
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is… — Karl Rahner
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form. — Hermann Hesse
Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing,… — David Spangler

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