Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous… — Alan Watts
Successful living does not mean accumulating material things, it means inner peace of mind; it means that gift of being able to adjust oneself to… — Albert E Cliffe
Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your… — Rajneesh
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. — Freya Stark
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood. — Unknown Author
The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ...… — Unknown Author
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth… — John Perry Barlow
Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it. — Ai Weiwei
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe… — Chanakya
Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself? — Carl Van Vechten
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me… — Cees Nooteboom
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One… — Elaine Scarry
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights… — Ayn Rand
I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose. — Cary Grant
Art is a way of recognizing oneself... — Louise Bourgeois
It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to… — Katherine Mansfield
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself. — Maria Sharapova
One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else. — Maya Angelou
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan
I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal… — Everett Ruess
To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a… — Deborah Tannen
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. — Agnes Martin
In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one… — Tunku Abdul Rahman
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book.… — Rebecca Mead

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