Oneself Quotes - Page 4

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

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

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being. The difference is between being in a certain state and knowing oneself to be in a certain state.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

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