Oneself Quotes - Page 3

The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

In the end one only experiences oneself.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

Belief in oneself is required for healing.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.