Oneself Quotes - Page 29

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Faith, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

  Elaine Scarry

  Teacher, Order, Sky

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Government, Principles

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.65, Penguin

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• I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

  Cary Grant

  Being Myself, Difficult, Critics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Way, Recognizing

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

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• To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

  Deborah Tannen

  Morning, Character, Men

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• The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

  Agnes Martin

  Self, Pitfalls, Devotion

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• If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hope, Respect

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Compassion, Dedication

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.425, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.

  Kristine Carlson

  Adventure, World, Offers

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• To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.

  Daniel Guerin

  Eye, Moon, Reality

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• People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
  oneself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  People, Inspire, Challenges

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• Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Art, Writing, Noticing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.45, Random House

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• Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mean, Rights, Giving

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• All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth...to give life is to open (our) heart, and to care for life is to (give oneself) in tenderness and warmth for others, to have concern in my heart for others. Caring for life from the beginning to the end. What a simple thing, what a beautiful thing..So, go forth and don't be discouraged. Care for life. It's worth it.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Heart, Caring

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• And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Prayer, Sleep, Night

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• One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself, but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Silence, Awkward, Mind

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.41, Paulist Press

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• Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

  Patricia Hampl

  Taste, Acquired Taste

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• Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

  Patricia Hampl

  Prayer, Placement, Position

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• To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

  Leo Buscaglia

  Struggle, Love Oneself, Uniqueness

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

  Asger Jorn

  Expressing Oneself

  Speech to the Penguins, 1949.

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• One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.

  David Hawkins

  Uplifting, Kind Thoughts, Benefits

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• It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Years, Two Year Olds, Long

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• To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Great Friend, Great Idea, Rare Things

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• The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Roots

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