Oneself Quotes
All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.
In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.
In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.
I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.
It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
