Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. — Georges Courteline
It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,… — James A. Baldwin
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted.… — Anne Truitt
Writing means revealing oneself to excess. — Franz Kafka
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own… — Quentin Bell
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind." — Joan Didion
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it. — S E Hinton
The overall message is 'one love,' which means love begins with oneself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone around you. — Simphiwe Dana
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter. — Unknown Author
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like… — Susan Sontag
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner… — Alfred Stieglitz
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a… — Viktor E. Frankl
To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we make are often… — Unknown Author
It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others. — Mark Twain
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes… — Wendell Berry

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