Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is… — Meher Baba
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist — Anish Kapoor
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense… — Anish Kapoor
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point… — Gangaji
It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself. — Mary Travers
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most… — Georgette Heyer
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to… — Kurt Tucholsky
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.... — Alfred Kazin
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat… — Laurie Colwin
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. — Siegfried Lenz
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside… — Franz Kafka
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to… — Franz Kafka
A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s… — Diana Vreeland
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the… — Aleister Crowley
To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly. — Samael Aun Weor
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as… — Eduardo Galeano
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself… — Iris Chang
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private… — Freya Stark
I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of… — Joichi Ito
Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the… — Marion Woodman
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy. — Matthieu Ricard
Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives… — Genghis Khan
It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological, — Michael Warner

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