Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.… — James A. Baldwin
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be… — Ernest Becker
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be… — Gilles Deleuze
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And… — Oscar Wilde
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. — Edward St Aubyn
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to… — Henry Miller
One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself. — Cassandra Clare
There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated… — Orson Scott Card
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with… — Albert Camus
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. — Orhan Pamuk
The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual… — Jonathan Franzen
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always… — Kay Redfield Jamison
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless. — Laozi
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. — Demosthenes
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good. — Laetitia Casta
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. — Eugene Delacroix
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. — W H Murray
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself,… — Laozi
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought… — Vince Lombardi

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