Oneself Quotes

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement.

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.

To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

If I'm not happy with how someone is showing up, I can only be honest and hope that my feelings resonate and inspire a deeper look into oneself.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.