Oneself Quotes

Oneself Quote of the day

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

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 a necessity for healing.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

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 all.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

[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 first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.