Oneself Quotes

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

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

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.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.