Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of… — Dorothy Day
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. — Jean Dubuffet
Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things… — Zora Neale Hurston
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will… — Bertrand Russell
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Leo Tolstoy
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but… — Caroline Myss
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of… — Archibald MacLeish
To know anything about oneself one must know all about others. — Oscar Wilde
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains… — Eugene Delacroix
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have… — Simone Weil
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and… — Carl Jung
First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love,… — Sri Chinmoy
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside… — Erich Fromm
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although… — Blaise Pascal
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself. — Cecil Taylor
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. — Dorothy Day
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself… — Erich Fromm
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in… — Pope John Paul II
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is… — E. Stanley Jones
Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. — Ethel Percy Andrus
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice… — Bertrand Russell
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. — Ivan Turgenev
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. — Sydney J. Harris
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to… — Aristotle

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