Oneself Quotes

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

All things are already complete in oneself.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.