Oneself Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

  Thomas Traherne

  Happiness, Thinking, Imagination

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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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• The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Roots

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• To live is to express oneself freely

  Bruce Lee

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.6, Tuttle Publishing

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• When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

  Jean Genet

  Beautiful, Ugly, Existentialism

  Jean Genet (1987). “Querelle”, p.46, Grove Press

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• I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Common

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Use, Spirit, Holy

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• All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

  Hermann Hesse

  Humor, Higher

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• The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Practice, Knowing

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• I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Want, Limits

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• When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

  Nyogen Senzaki

  Running, Spiritual, Worry

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• The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Sacrifice, Important, Civilized Nations

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Love Is, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.125, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

  William George Jordan

  Block, Angel, Self Confidence

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.21, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Courage, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.19, Routledge

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• When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

  William Hazlitt

  Competition, Progress, Doe

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• In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself.

  Jill Purce

  Trying, Sound, Self Knowledge

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• As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.

  Carl Jung

  Creative, Age, Trying

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• To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Book, Wells

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• All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Spring, Greed, Suffering

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• It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Ridiculous, Shows

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• To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

  Sigmund Freud

  Best Effort, Honest, Humans

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• It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Easy, Paint, Difficult

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• I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

  Socrates

  Evil, Programming, Greater Good

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