Oneself Quotes - Page 5

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

All things are already complete in oneself.

Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.