Oneself Quotes
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.
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.
Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.
To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.
One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.
It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.
Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about the ability, courage, and commitment to end the war within oneself and not quit until the job is done.
Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.
The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.
I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.
Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
