Oneself Quotes

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations.

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

A person is only as fair to oneself as the people often hanging around him or her, here and there, truly care towards ones who are not personally or professionally related to them anywhere.

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.

Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.