Quotes of: Oneself Keyword

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

W. G. Sebald

Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.

Unarine Ramaru

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

Unarine Ramaru

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the Dead: to make oneself up was to designate oneself as a body simultaneously living and dead: the...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart, that like Hamlet, or like Arjuna, one may refuse to go on with it. On the oth...

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a c...

Man's Search for Meaning

The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of inferiority, of missing the mark, of being out of harmony with God and with oneself, a sense of wrongness. Divine forgiveness wipes ou...

The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person

There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful psychological techniques. There is nothing about oneself which cannot be taken away or changed. The proper stimuli can, if correctly applied, turn com...

Peter J. Carroll

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The Complete Essays

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

The Clocks

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.

The Code of the Woosters

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne

The Dark Before Dawn

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.

Divine Union

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld's Book

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

On the Heights of Despair

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Guru Nanak

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Knut Hamsun

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

Robert Pinsky

Through the mind and judgment, it is not possible to understand oneself and others. True understanding is a compassionate heart.

365 Wisdom Pills