Oneself Quotes

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.