Oneself Quotes - Page 4

• One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Discovery

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The final mystery is oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiring, Learning, Growth

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Relationship, Inspiring, Giving

  "The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus".

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• I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Inspirational, Leadership, Book

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• To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

  Jose Rizal

  Struggle, Passion, Men

  Letter to his family from Dapitan, 1884.

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• The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Regret, Blessing, Creating

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.

  Ayya Khema

  Self, Unhappy, Desire

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• Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

  John W. Gardner

  Running, Being Yourself, Clever

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• Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Accountability, Rewards, Dignity

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• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Scar Tissue, Reinvention

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

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• In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

  Thich Thien-An

  Happiness, Buddhism, Evil

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• Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Giving, Causes, Surrender

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.102, Penguin UK

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• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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• Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

  Frida Kahlo

  Laughter, Light, Laughing

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Change, Spiritual, Heart

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

  Henry Rollins

  Inspirational, Life, Friends

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

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• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?

  Stephen Grosz

  Children, Hard Work, Thinking

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

  Tony Robbins

  Quality, Life Is, Asks

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• Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Feelings, Being Free

  Interview with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination. One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. She's like, "There's a man who is outside your house, Ginny, and you need to be logging onto this website to see if you can find a pattern in when he follows you." But otherwise, I can't find any good reason to read my own press.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Men, House

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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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