Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser. — Mario Vargas Llosa
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose.… — Kate Morton
the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs,… — D. H. Lawrence
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. — Tracy Kidder
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain… — Joan Didion
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our… — Voltaire
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became… — Virginia Woolf
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself,… — Derrick Jensen
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring… — W. Somerset Maugham
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. — Flannery O'Connor
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. — Alain Badiou
Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk… — Julio Cortazar
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing… — Ayn Rand
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne
How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with… — Ellen Hopkins
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. — Agatha Christie
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that? — Kazuo Ishiguro
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under… — Virginia Woolf
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the… — Joan Didion
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence… — Barry Lopez
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure… — Cassandra Clare
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in… — Michael Shermer
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to… — Jonathan Stroud

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