Oneself Quotes

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

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

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.