One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation beca...
One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.
The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of one...
Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay.
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover 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.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into...
That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.
it may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that’s nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
