Oneself Quotes

• 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

  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Real, Cynical

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Real, Love Is

  1959 'The Sublime and the Good'.

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• In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Prayer, Pain, Thinking

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.124, Grove Press

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• A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

  Paul Valery

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

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• The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

  John Fowles

  Life, Philosophy, Important

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Bruce Lee

  Relationship, Motivation, Acting

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing

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• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Being Yourself, Just Being

  "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.

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• To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Heartbreak, Cheating

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Mastery

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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  No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Needs, Sparkle

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.570, Wordsworth Editions

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• The doctor of the future will be oneself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Doctors

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• To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Motivational, Inspiring, Should

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.59, New World Library

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Change, Life Changing, Yoga

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