Oneself Quotes

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?'

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

It is necessary to disassociate oneself from those who would interfere with your success in enlightenment, in your career, in your life. They are not worth it.

Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.