Oneself Quotes - Page 6

• When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Moving Forward, Light, Suffering

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• Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Opportunity, Accessories, Way

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• The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

  Franz Kafka

  Strength, Prayer, Men

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Depression, Sadness, Overwhelmed

  Jackie Kennedy's remarks after President Kennedy's assassination, 1963.

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• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  R. D. Laing

  Nature, Class, Society

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Struggle, Joy, Needs

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• There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Real, Sin

  The Golden Notebook "Free Women: 5" (1962)

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• How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Strong, Interdependence

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Hate, Thinking, Rejection

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.33, Random House

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• To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

  Jose Marti

  Simple, Dignity, Talent

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

  Herman Melville

  Writing, Literature, Impossible

  Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.254, 谷月社

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• It's dangerous to assert oneself.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Dangerous

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• One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Uprising, Done, Chance

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Suicidal, Doe

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• Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Education, Mistake

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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• To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

  Evita Peron

  Take Time, Convince

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• My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

  Tariq Ramadan

  War, People, Culture

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Way, Deceived

  "The Atlanta Co-Ed Murder". Book by Glen C. Carrington (p. 165), August 2010.

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• Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.164, Bertrand Russell

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• Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

  Francoise Sagan

  Writing, Character, Finding The One

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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• Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Men, Expression

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• There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

  Clara Schumann

  Joy, Listening, Composing

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• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Self, Ideas

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part III : On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions, Prop. 51: Note, 1677.

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• Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

  Joseph Stalin

  Mean, Division, Fundamentals

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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