Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . . — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always… — Nathaniel Branden
In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in… — Yasuhiko Kimura
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things… — Dogen
...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. — Rainer Maria Rilke
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential. — Harold Bloom
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner
It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself… — Ramana Maharshi
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem… — Georges Bernanos
Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle, fighting and subduing… — Sukarno
I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how… — Terry Eagleton
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one… — Nathalie Sarraute
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but… — Harold Brodkey
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter… — Billy Gibbons
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune,… — Julian Baggini
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it. — Eduardo Chillida
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. — Emile M. Cioran
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never,… — John Grierson
The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he… — Maurice Blanchot
To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment. — Anthony de Mello
The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. — Susan Sontag
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an… — Alasdair MacIntyre
As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself… — Susan Sontag
Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm… — Deborah Lupton

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