Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest,… — Dalai Lama
Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet a beautiful woman… — Rajneesh
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible… — Stanley Kauffmann
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor… — Robert Baden-Powell
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength. — Laozi
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. — Edsger Dijkstra
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people… — Hakim Bey
Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things. — Herbert Read
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up… — Lauren Willig
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings… — Gary L. Francione
In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life… — Chogyam Trungpa
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. — Morarji Desai
So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of… — Henrik Ibsen
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie du Chatelet
It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we… — Carlos Castaneda
Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is...… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can… — Carl Jung
Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming… — Gaston Bachelard
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. — Anthony de Mello
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death. — Anselm of Canterbury

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