Oneself Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Nicolas Cage

  Movie, Fun, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 17, 2004.

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• A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Golden, Golden Rule, Incomplete

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Cat, Independent

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• Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

  Sloane Crosley

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Cities

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". Interview with Eric Klinenberg, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

  Evan Davis

  Self, Expression, Law

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• There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

  Guy Debord

  Hype, Deceit, World

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

  Junot Diaz

  Betrayal, Love Is, Historical

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• One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Animal, Reflection

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.24, Library of America

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• 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.

  Epictetus

  Life, Education, Teaching

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.499, Lulu.com

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• Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

  Joseph Epstein

  Ice Cream, Icy, Shows

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• Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

  Richard Eyre

  Art, Eye, Empathy

  "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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• We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Selfishness, World

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• Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

  Anna Freud

  Trying, Way, Deals

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• Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Evil, Understanding

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected papers”

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• Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

  Erich Fromm

  Soulmate, Integrity, Love You

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.31, Routledge

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• I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Thinking, Talking

  Stephen Fry (2010). “Paperweight”, p.208, Random House

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• Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Littles, Eternity

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Limits

  "Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

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• It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Trust, Faith

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

  Stanislav Grof

  Fear, Important, Spirituality

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hygiene, Suffering, Literature

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

  Edward Hoagland

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated

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• Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mother, Giving, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Fun, Mean, Dark

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Education, Thinking

  "Mortal Coils".

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