Oneself Quotes (page 2)

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• allowed
• allowing
• allowance

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes Ayn Rand

• free
• decision
• decisive

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

• directed
• harmful
• directly

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. Jean-Paul Sartre

• naked
• others
• being

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

• moon
• star
• soul

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? Oscar Wilde

• words
• true
• freedom

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives. Emile M. Cioran

• fall
• beautiful
• sleeping beauty

It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to find oneself again, to sleep in the arms of a beautiful student whose name one didn't know, to fall back to sleep over a love poem-that was called existence. The harmonics of artistic creation, of fertile sensibility, of anticipated events-history in movement-that was called a privilege. Elie Wiesel

• communication
• communes
• communicative

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

• nature
• evening
• world

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. Guy Debord

• success
• more
• than

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso

• love
• difficult
• hated

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. Pablo Picasso

• rich
• divided
• antagonism

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Joseph Stalin

• wonderful
• people
• wonder

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. John Cazale

• assertiveness
• knowingly
• knows

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Albert Camus

• personality
• study
• personal

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Bruce Lee