Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger whom you await,… — Ramana Maharshi
To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life. — Sri Chinmoy
Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and directly. You have… — Chogyam Trungpa
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs. — Peter Drucker
Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home… — Thomas Merton
Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in… — Cecelia Ahern
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. — Henry Moore
This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures… — Ivan Goncharov
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,… — Arthur Koestler
You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it… — Arthur Koestler
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret… — Ellen Glasgow
Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to… — Caroline Myss
One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days. — Unknown Author
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself. — Laozi
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. — Anatole France
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself. — Brandon Sanderson
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human… — Alan Ayckbourn
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society… — Margaret Drabble
If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing — Glenn Gould
All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself,… — Stefan Zweig
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they… — Isaac Rosenberg
One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences. — John Edward
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day… — W G Sebald

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