To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Votes: 2
Henri BergsonTo dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Votes: 1
Soren KierkegaardThe courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Votes: 1
Paul TillichA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Votes: 1
Joseph CampbellThere is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. Votes: 1
Clara SchumannDerive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Votes: 1
Henri MatisseOne must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Votes: 1
Friedrich NietzscheIn order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. Votes: 1
Albert EinsteinSelf-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirOne can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerForgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom. Votes: 0
William Arthur WardPerhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. Votes: 0
Miriam ToewsThe acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. Votes: 0
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ... Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyThe whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. Votes: 0
Pierre SchaefferUnkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. Votes: 0
Adrienne MonnierIt is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. Votes: 0
Robert FrankDestiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy. Votes: 0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTaunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose. Votes: 0
J. K. RowlingLiberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace. Votes: 0
David ShiIn protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaLife involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. Votes: 0
William EmpsonObserving humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. Votes: 0
Gao XingjianIt is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself. Votes: 0
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsTo read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily. Votes: 0
Marilyn Chandler McEntyreIt is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques Rousseau...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. Votes: 0
Rainer Maria RilkeThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. Votes: 0
Patricia HighsmithHow can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. Votes: 0
Augustus William HareThe things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. Votes: 0
Eugene DelacroixTo live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdomp 364 Votes: 0
Melanie BenjaminIt was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being. Votes: 0
Arthur MillerCivilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself. Votes: 0
Helen CamAt least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific. Votes: 0
Jan NerudaOne must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings. Votes: 0
Alexis CarrelIn the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice. Votes: 0
Billy CollinsThe transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiHonesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too. Votes: 0
Rafael NadalThere is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence... Votes: 0
SocratesLove is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Votes: 0
Iris MurdochNever too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonHumility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EnglePeople who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself. Votes: 0
Daisaku IkedaThere's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself. Votes: 0
Pema ChodronHappiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellSometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldOne is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheIt is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive. Votes: 0
Christina, Queen of SwedenWhen one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. Votes: 0
Anne Morrow LindberghIt is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghSometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . . Votes: 0
Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonOne shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying. Votes: 0
Tomas Eloy MartinezThe greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonSeeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaI don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. Votes: 0
Stephen FryNot to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesFashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteAn infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. Votes: 0
Konrad AdenauerThere is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. Votes: 0
Anatole FranceI always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. Votes: 0
Charles de GaulleRemind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusThere's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself. Votes: 0
Michael R. BurchPoliteness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldJust as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. Votes: 0
Alan WattsMuch of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others. Votes: 0
Janet FrameFashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeTo underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan Doyle...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing. Votes: 0
Joao MagueijoThe most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. Votes: 0
John FowlesA quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible. Votes: 0
Bruce LeeWhenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellFreedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellEveryone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. Votes: 0
A. N. WilsonIt is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards. Votes: 0
AesopThe less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes. Votes: 0
Cate BlanchettIt is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleIt is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. Votes: 0
Nicole KraussMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiBy dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertTo will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirTo think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. Votes: 0
Brand BlanshardOne must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. Votes: 0
AristophanesNothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. Votes: 0
DemosthenesThe chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. Votes: 0
Iris MurdochLaughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places! Votes: 0
Eugenia PriceOne of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. Votes: 0
Kim Stanley RobinsonTo remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly. Votes: 0
Samael Aun WeorI have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Votes: 0
Seamus HeaneyAs one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people. Votes: 0
Basil RathboneOne does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. Votes: 0
Mary BaloghLogic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself Votes: 0
Otto WeiningerTo learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiBeing true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it. Votes: 0
Mike SvobTo age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself. Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonNever forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others. Votes: 0
John TempletonLaugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings. Votes: 0
Maya Angelouin love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself! Votes: 0
Belle de JourResenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot. Votes: 0
Amartya SenOne's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyOne must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. Votes: 0
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosLife begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Votes: 0
Sarah BernhardtBelief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. Votes: 0
Lydia M. ChildIndividualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself. Votes: 0
Carl JungPITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceTo understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. Votes: 0
George SantayanaFor true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail. Votes: 0
Gore VidalWhat comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. Votes: 0
Eduardo ChillidaWhat comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. Votes: 0
Eduardo ChillidaTo be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireAh, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver. Votes: 0
Ivy Compton-BurnettIt is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. Votes: 0
H. Rider HaggardOne writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. Votes: 0
Alfred KazinThe hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself. Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Votes: 0
Paul CezanneHow good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. Votes: 0
Emil CioranHow good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranOne has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. Votes: 0
Freya StarkIt is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamLife is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyA sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. Votes: 0
Clifton FadimanAny opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it. Votes: 0
Marc JacobsTo be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudThe finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne Votes: 0
Laurie StevensIt is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within. Votes: 0
Eiji YoshikawaBreak what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyOne does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. Votes: 0
Loren EiseleyEven when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself. Votes: 0
Albert CamusEmpathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. Votes: 0
Heinz KohutHealing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself. Votes: 0
Vernon HowardTo find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiTo establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. Votes: 0
Chinua AchebeThis ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. Votes: 0
Olga KorbutWhen there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself. Votes: 0
Clare VanderpoolOne should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. Votes: 0
Ginnifer GoodwinHow foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Votes: 0
Hermann HesseThe quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself. Votes: 0
Tony RobbinsSometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself. Votes: 0
James FrancoThe virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. Votes: 0
A.J. CroninThere is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. Votes: 0
Albert CamusGuard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself. Votes: 0
Alexandra David-NeelIt is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. Votes: 0
Theodor ReikI always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. Votes: 0
Hortense CalisherTalent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers. Votes: 0
Maxim GorkyIn order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. Votes: 0
Jean Rostandto be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right. Votes: 0
Iris MurdochIf it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamOne's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertIt is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will. Votes: 0
Ryan ShayThe next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisA journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself. Votes: 0
Jim StovallI think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?" Votes: 0
Desmond TutuIt is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself. Votes: 0
Mary TraversImmersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. Votes: 0
Orhan PamukTo throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. Votes: 0
Edwin MarkhamIt is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMy experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. Votes: 0
Eleanor RooseveltWhen one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiTo my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link. Votes: 0
Cy TwomblyTo lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist. Votes: 0
Alice Tisdale HobartDrama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. Votes: 0
George P. BakerIn the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself. Votes: 0
Robert MotherwellI remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyI advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it. Votes: 0
S. E. HintonFaith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use. Votes: 0
Albert J. BeveridgeIt means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself. Votes: 0
Booker T. WashingtonIt is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHow sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life. Votes: 0
MenanderTo live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself. Votes: 0
Henrik IbsenOne must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.
Maya AngelouOne cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.
Michel Foucault...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
Niccolo MachiavelliTo annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
Sylvia PlathHell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
Aldous HuxleyThe true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
Baltasar GracianThere is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
Denis DiderotIt is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
Dorothy DayThe most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
Judith ButlerTrue freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
Matthieu RicardPerhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.
Primo LeviComme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex
Rei KawakuboOne's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.
Robert MotherwellOne's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
Bernie SiegelTo bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
Isaac D'IsraeliIf one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
Julian SandsAfter a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
Marcel ProustCuriosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Michael KordaEveryone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.
Robert ThurmanHumility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
Vance HavnerTrue greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
VoltaireIt is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Arthur SchopenhauerI surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.
Barry WebsterOf course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
ChrystosGreat art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.
Daisaku IkedaOne must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Leo TolstoyThere is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.
Selma LagerlöfIt is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
SocratesOne must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
Helen FieldingThe main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
Madeleine AlbrightThe state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
Ramana MaharshiWhen writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
Roald DahlTo engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle
Yuu WataseTo be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
Oscar WildeOne must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda
OuidaI never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
Ivy Compton-BurnettWhy lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Jules VerneRobust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
Mahatma GandhiTo begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
Martin BuberDisgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,
Milan KunderaTo dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
Saint AugustineTo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Andre Gideone forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.
Francine du Plessix GrayIt is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Friedrich NietzscheIf there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
Gail GodwinThe full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.
Henry MillerSpiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
Ignazio SiloneIt seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.
Kate DiCamilloWhat an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
Agatha ChristieIn the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.
Erich FrommCocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
Faith PopcornOf course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
Imre Kertészas one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Lillian HellmanTo link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.
Mao ZedongFreedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.
Samael Aun WeorThe acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. Votes: 3 Carl Jung
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Votes: 3 Henri Bergson
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Votes: 1 Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. Votes: 1 Debra Winger
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. Votes: 1 Stephen Fry
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us. Votes: 3 Henri Cartier-Bresson
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. Votes: 0 David Bailey
I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn't think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that. Votes: 3 Chiwetel Ejiofor
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Votes: 5 Marcus Aurelius
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. Votes: 0 Gunter Grass
Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory. Votes: 4 Franz Grillparzer
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Votes: 2 Oscar Wilde
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure. Votes: 3 Phylicia Rashad
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. Votes: 1 Nathalie Sarraute
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. Votes: 2 Gustav Mahler
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. Votes: 1 W. Somerset Maugham
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community. Votes: 1 John O. Brennan
Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. Votes: 1 Paul Ryan
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects. Votes: 3 Saint Basil
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. Votes: 1 Jacques Lacan
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good. Votes: 4 Laetitia Casta