Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. — Dalai Lama
What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?… — Kazuo Ishiguro
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal… — Dave Eggers
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the… — Orson Scott Card
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was… — Roald Dahl
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. — Virginia Woolf
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. — Madeleine L'Engle
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong… — Antonio Gramsci
--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too.… — Simone de Beauvoir
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so… — Simone de Beauvoir
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body… — Aleister Crowley
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. — Gustave Flaubert
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not… — C.S. Lewis
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. — Elisabeth Elliot
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more… — Oscar Wilde
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,… — Haruki Murakami
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from… — Carl Jung
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. — Ayn Rand
So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?… — Virginia Woolf
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many… — Thomas Merton
Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is… — Alan Moore
Be a light unto oneself — Jiddu Krishnamurti
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of… — Ram Dass

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