Oneself Quotes - Page 12

• Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Believe, Wish

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• Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

  Laetitia Casta

  Beauty, Real, Feel Good

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• The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Wisdom, Being Alone, Solitude

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• When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Being Alone, Silence

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Business, Goal, Way

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

  W. H. Murray

  Change, Moving, Growth

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• One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

  Vince Lombardi

  Positive, Believe, Mind

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• An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

  Dorothy Day

  Love, Hope, Courage

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• Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Dance, Dancing, Lasts

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• Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Mean, Enemy

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• It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Education, Asking, Pay

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• One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Position

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.111, Modern Library

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• Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Freedom, Exercise, Men

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Knows

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.16, Oscar Wilde

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• You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Happiness, Men, Self

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• I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

  Simone Weil

  Happiness, Fighting, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.5, Routledge

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• Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Acceptance, Simple

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell, (Ch. 13), 1930.

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• First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Real, Mean

  "Rainbow-Flowers". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1973.

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• I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Integrity, Believe

  Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.101, A&C Black

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• When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Passion, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

  Cecil Taylor

  Music, Jazz Improvisation, Ability

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• It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

  Dorothy Day

  Peace, Community Living, Giving

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• Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

  Erich Fromm

  Peace, Productive Work, Able

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.107, Routledge

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