Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself. — Rajneesh
Friendship with oneself is all important. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away… — Thomas Merton
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence. — Emile M. Cioran
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character. — Morihei Ueshiba
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to… — Pope Benedict XVI
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings. — Ramsay MacMullen
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who… — Sudhir Kakar
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's… — Criss Jami
The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on… — Criss Jami
As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?' — Criss Jami
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to… — Criss Jami
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. — Seamus Heaney
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling… — Marcus Aurelius
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
all which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence — E E Cummings
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism,… — James Anthony Froude
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes… — Alfred Austin
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have… — Alice James
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else — George Santayana
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being… — Jasper Johns
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. — John Fowles
We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of… — Pope Francis

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