Oneself Quotes - Page 40

• Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

  Laozi

  Strength, Knowledge, Understanding

  Laozi (1990). “Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way”, Bantam

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• One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Wish, Excess, Permit

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• Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

  Edsger Dijkstra

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• One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

  Hakim Bey

  Expression, People, Justice

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• Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

  Herbert Read

  Real, Goal, Simplicity

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• What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Kindness, Mean, Compassion

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• Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.

  Lauren Willig

  Morning, Brother, Believe

  Lauren Willig (2010). “The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas”, p.65, Penguin

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• Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Perfect, Effort

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• Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Peace, Animal, Rights

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• In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Life, Dark, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

  Morarji Desai

  Life, Change, Gratitude

  "Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline?" by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, (p. 44), 2014.

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• To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Natural, Sentiments

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Circles

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

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• To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Fur, Want

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.157, Read Books Ltd

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• It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Differences, Words Of Wisdom, Pieces

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Men, Secret

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.944, Library of America

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• Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

  Emile Zola

  Life, Surrender, Rebellion

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• It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

  Emile Zola

  Humble, Suffering, Should

  Emile Zola (2001). “Truth”

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• After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Death, Believe, Feelings

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• In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Order, Able

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.105, Рипол Классик

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• With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

  Bruce Lee

  Adversity, Blessing, Routine

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, Tuttle Publishing

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• To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Maintaining, Contemplating

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.37, Tuttle Publishing

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• My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Clothes, Different, Persons

  "Behind the Scenes With Bibhu Mohapatra at Lakme Fashion Week" by Marissa Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2012.

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• To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.

  John Ruskin

  People, Feelings, Mind

  "Modern Painters". Book by John Ruskin. Volume III, part IV, chapter XVI, 1856.

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• Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.

  John Galsworthy

  Art, Real, Men

  John Galsworthy (2008). “The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

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