Oneself Quotes

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

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

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 amuse oneself.

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.