Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy.… — Iris Apfel
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born.… — Amy Carmichael
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our… — Sydney J. Harris
Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause.… — Sydney J. Harris
The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable. — Alain de Botton
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from… — Dalai Lama
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the… — Dalai Lama
Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one… — Thanissaro Bhikkhu
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all… — S. N. Goenka
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines… — May Sarton
Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others. — Amit Abraham
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair. — Kate Morton
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself. — Patrick McGoohan
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others. — Anne Desclos
True victory is victory over oneself. — Morihei Ueshiba
To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to… — Bruce Lee
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit. — Saint Augustine
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate… — Muso Soseki
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence… — Mahatma Gandhi
The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up… — Unknown Author

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