Quotes of: Oneself Keyword

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Jean Rostand

Carl: It's strange, isn't it, to think of oneself as an assassin? Avner: Think of yourself as something else then.

Munich

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

Alan Sugar

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Brigitte Bardot

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Vaclav Havel

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

A. N. Wilson

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

To get rid of a few problems in general health, to increase one's capacity for work, to make one's character gentler and stronger, to free oneself of various complexes, to create in oneself a whole atmosphere of calm and silence, and to do this by ex...

Christian Yoga

Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abu...

Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for c...

A Room of One's Own

... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which ma...

Swann's Way

Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself. Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen that you are not separate from Existence. Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being. Fear is the opposite of love...

Swami Dhyan Giten

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Crime and Punishment

If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?

The Coming Storm

To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom... p 364

The Aviator's Wife

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

Gordon B. Hinckley

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Swing Low

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

The Magus

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

Prague Tales