Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient. — Nikos Kazantzakis
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens… — C.S. Lewis
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism. — Sylvia Plath
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish. — Alan Bennett
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The… — Flannery O'Connor
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two,… — Henry James
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle
To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that… — Gilles Deleuze
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into… — Barbara Ehrenreich
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. — Theodor Adorno
Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that… — Andrew Murray
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself. — Nadine Gordimer
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. — Alain de Botton
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. — Virginia Woolf
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose. — Madeleine Albright
There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. — Alan Watts
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own… — Susan Sontag
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from… — David Lodge
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I… — D. H. Lawrence
Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow… — Kay Redfield Jamison
It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill — Franz Kafka

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