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Oneself Quotes (page 17)

...success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling? I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another. Rainer Maria Rilke
Voltaire quote: "To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can..."
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature. Voltaire
Impartiality is incompatible with the will to affirm oneself or quite simply with the will to exist. To acknowledge another’s merits is an alarming symptom, an act against nature. Emile M. Cioran
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing..."
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Booker T. Washington quote: "It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation..."
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself. Booker T. Washington
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself. Leo Tolstoy
It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be otherwise; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; or if you did wish to, even then you would do nothing; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it. John Lubbock
Gustave Flaubert quote: "By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an..."
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. Gustave Flaubert
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. C. S. Lewis
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. Plato
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. Marcel Duchamp
Chinua Achebe quote: "There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with..."
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. Chinua Achebe
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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