Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling apart in different… — Rajneesh
St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under… — Unknown Author
Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others. — Unknown Author
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. — Clifton Fadiman
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings. — Alexis Carrel
Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it… — Brother Lawrence
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. — Thomas Ehrlich
Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking.… — Victoria Alexander
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when… — Shirley Hazzard
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — Matthieu Ricard
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Unknown Author
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free. — Theo van Doesburg
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change... — Hans Hartung
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular… — Unknown Author
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,… — Unknown Author
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.… — Hokusai
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life… — Seneca the Younger
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength — Laozi
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to… — Peter Singer

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