Oneself Quotes

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

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.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.