Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself? — Nicole Krauss
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. — Oscar Wilde
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from… — Azar Nafisi
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of… — Garth Stein
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing… — Doris Lessing
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. — Bertrand Russell
Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot. — Amartya Sen
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most… — Lewis Hyde
Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing… — Paulo Coelho
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the… — Soren Kierkegaard
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To… — Susan Sontag
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. — Simone Weil
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it… — Elisabeth Elliot
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake… — Ayn Rand
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory,… — Bertrand Russell
...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is… — Soren Kierkegaard
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much… — Jane Austen
There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps… — P D Ouspensky
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself. — Henrik Ibsen
Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of… — Cornel West
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not… — Ian Fleming
The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard… — Garth Stein
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon,… — Michael Ondaatje
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being… — Paulo Coelho

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