Oneself Quotes

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

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

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

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

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.

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

I believe in just doing it and not looking for excuses because who really cares in the end? No one but oneself.

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . .

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

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

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

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

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.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

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.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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.

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

There is no treasure like the human heart.

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.