Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. — Gautama Buddha
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world… — Vijay Prashad
The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit. — Lee Bolman
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put… — James Weldon Johnson
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,… — Plato
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual… — Caroline Myss
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. — Jane Welsh Carlyle
What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn to become a… — Henri Mignet
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on… — Debra Winger
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get… — Soren Kierkegaard
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away… — Soren Kierkegaard
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and… — Knut Hamsun
The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself. — Paulo Coelho
The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one… — Paulo Coelho
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. — Ruth Rendell
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless… — Andre Breton
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college;… — Sharon Olds
Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. — Tony Judt
We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself… — Neal A. Maxwell
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection. — Ignatius Loyola
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they… — Erich Maria Remarque
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . .… — John Lennon
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is need for much… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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