Oneself Quotes
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another
What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.
Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi.
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart," or "I'm sorry and I love you."
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.
The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.