Oneself Quotes

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

One can run away from anything but oneself.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.