Oneself Quotes - Page 14

• I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Thinking, Fire

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• It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Opportunity, Reality, Vision

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• Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Unique, Community

  Frances Moore Lappé (1991). “Rediscovering America's Values”

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• In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, Order, Persons

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.194, Transaction Publishers

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• When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Stranger

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Insane, World

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Loneliness And Solitude

  "Wisdom from Gift from the Sea".

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• This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

  Olga Korbut

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Friendship, Real, Self Respect

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Independence, Tests

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.31, e-artnow

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• When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

  Plutarch

  Struggle, Men, He Man

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• Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Love Is, Wings

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• One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

  May Sarton

  Being Yourself, Discipline, Doe

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that all truly is well with the world, with life, and with oneself. It's also a commitment not to mindlessly pass on fears but to bring positive energy, images, ideas, and feelings into the lives of others, to help them attune to the wellness at the heart of the world.

  David Spangler

  Heart, Positive Thinking, Commitment

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• Pray Meditate Be aware.Stay awake Bow Practise yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax.Enjoy.Laugh.Play Create.Envision Let Go/Forgive.Accept Walk.Exercise.Move Work.Serve.Contribute Listen/Learn.Enquire Consider.Reflect Cultivate oneself.Enhance competencies Cultivate contentment Cultivate flexibility Cultivate friendship and collaboration Lighten up Celebrate and appreciate Dream Give thanks Evolve Love Share.Give.Receive Walk softly.Live gently Expand.Radiate.Dissolve Simplify Surrender.Trust Be born anew

  Surya Das

  Letting Go, Dream, Buddhist

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• The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Believe, Humility, Humble

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• It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

  Alfred Adler

  Humility, Science, Order

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• These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

  Confucius

  Humility, Order, Ideas

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• Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fashion, Clothes, Slave

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• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Experience, Labor

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• That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Experience, Daily Life, Life Is

  D. H. Lawrence, Book House (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.805, Book House

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• Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

  Maxim Gorky

  Needs, Genius, Actors

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• The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Knowing Nothing, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

  Anatole France

  Moral, Opinion, Manners

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