Oneself Quotes - Page 36

• One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

  John Edward

  Doe, Ease, Deceiving

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• Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Struggle, Drawing

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• This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in what God has done in Christ, and for us in union with him. Rather than view Christians first and foremost in the microcosmic context of their own progress, the Reformed doctrine first of all sets them in the macrocosm of God's activity in redemptive history. It is seeing oneself in this context that enables the individual Christian to grow in true holiness.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Views, Achievement

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• I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Passion, Soul, Deception

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• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

  Arthur Koestler

  Betrayal, Hands, Voice

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• You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self Confidence, Expression, People

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• In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

  Caroline Myss

  Strength, Pain, Healing

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• In order to heal oneself,
  we must learn how to forgive.

  Caroline Myss

  Order, Forgiving, Heal

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• One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.

  Charles Trenet

  Laughing

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• It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Discovery, Enlightenment

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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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• Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Rising

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• To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Suffering, Age, Body

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive”, p.747, Tor Books

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• As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Race, Made, Conversation

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• And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

  Margaret Drabble

  Nice, Guilt, Body

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

  Glenn Gould

  Cutting, Artist, Creative

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• All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

  Ideas, People, World

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• I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Real, Fate, Important

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.

  W. G. Sebald

  Years, Crow, Quality

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• When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is fulfilled; and union follows. And when union is attained, the lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved whom he loved and desired union with; and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself. To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

  Meher Baba

  Impossible Situations, Purpose, Unions

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• One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

  Anish Kapoor

  Believe, Artist, Mythology

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• One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

  Anish Kapoor

  Luxury, Doe, Aesthetic

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• If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.

  Gangaji

  Views, Suffering, Energy

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• It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

  Mary Travers

  World, One Thing

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