Oneself Quotes - Page 35

• The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.

  Sam Vaknin

  Ideas, Empathy, Feelings

  Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.261, Narcissus Publishing

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• The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Empathy, Listening

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• Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Empathy, Recognition

  Thomas Nagel (2016). “The Possibility of Altruism”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Empathy, Healthy, Psychological

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• To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

  Emile Durkheim

  Goal, Unattainable, Definitions

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

  William Wycherley

  Names, Giving

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in your hearts, in your homes, and in your country, assemble each evening to recite the Rosary. Let not even one day pass without saying it, no matter how burdened you may be with many cares and labors.

  Pope Pius XI

  Country, Powerful, Home

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• Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

  Edwin H Friedman

  Inspirational, Leadership, Visions Of The Future

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• What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Heart, Long

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• For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

  Helen Vendler

  Self, Expression, Criticism

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• One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.

  Oscar Romero

  Risk, Demand, Danger

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• But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

  Paul Gauguin

  Ideas, Remembrance, Painting

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Feelings, Existential, Excellent

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.131, Basic Books

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• Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.

  Henry Green

  Night, Long, Feelings

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• It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

  Noah Levine

  Hate, Attachment, Important

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• Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

  Sigmund Freud

  People, Solitude, Suffering

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Curiosity, Ridiculous

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• ...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

  Joao Magueijo

  Science, Curiosity, Losing

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• It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

  Anatole France

  Deception, Talent, Deceiving

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.76, Anatole France

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• The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger whom you await, he is bound to disappear also. What is the use of a transient being like that? But so long as you think you are separate or that you are the body, an external master is also necessary and he will appear to have a body. When the wrong identification of oneself with the body ceases, the master will be found to be none other than the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

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• To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Tests, Being True

  "Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50" by Sri Chinmoy, (#26570, Part 27), 1998.

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• Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength and exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and directly. You have the chance to experience the brightness of life and the haziness of life, which is also a source of power. The fantastically sharp-edged quality of life can be experienced personally and directly. There is a powerful sense of perception available to you.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Powerful, Views, Magic

  "True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art".

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• The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

  Peter Drucker

  Creating, Needs, Revolution

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• Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.

  Thomas Merton

  Home, Mean, Offering

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Order, Class

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “One Hundred Names”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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