Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others. — Joseph Campbell
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself. — Robert Bresson
Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of… — Chogyam Trungpa
Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. — Morarji Desai
What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there… — Takuan Soho
Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself. — Carl Jung
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. — Ram Dass
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty,… — Bridget Riley
I was, on the whole, considerably discouraged by my school days. It was not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at… — Winston Churchill
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. — Terence McKenna
Sometimes one barely understand oneself. — Pope Alexander VI
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action. — Aleister Crowley
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of… — Carl Jung
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because… — Bill Drayton
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings. — Maya Angelou
To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with… — Jose Rizal
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. — Henry Rollins
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased… — Robert Browning
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in… — Walter Benjamin
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb.… — Doug Scott
People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I… — Robert Helpmann

Who Wrote These Oneself Quotes

905 authors contributed a total of 1,593 Oneself Quotes, led by these top contributors: