Oneself Quotes - Page 7

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?