Oneself Quotes

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Be a light unto oneself

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Sometimes one barely understand oneself.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.