Oneself Quotes - Page 19

• Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

  Ruth Rendell

  Self, Talking, Listening

  "Ruth Rendell: In quotes". www.theguardian.com. May 02, 2015.

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• The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Justice, Imagination

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• Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Children, Memories

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• Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

  Tony Judt

  Seems, Conditions

  "The Memory Chalet".

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• We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

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• SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Spiritual, Exercise, Order

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• The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Teacher, Home, Men

  Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”

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• One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.

  John Lennon

  Music, People, Want

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.105, Verso

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• The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is need for much discipline in marriage, not of one's companion, but of oneself... When couples cultivate the art of the soft answer, it blesses their home, their life together, and their companionship.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Art, Couple, Home

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• It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

  Greil Marcus

  Struggle, Interesting, May

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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• One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Inability, Incompetence, Chiefs

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.380, Spectra

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• Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Unkindness, Displeasure

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.174, U of Nebraska Press

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• Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

  Dada Vaswani

  Empathy, Joy, Sorrow

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• Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

  Heinz Kohut

  Thinking, Empathy, Capacity

  Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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• The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

  Jean Decety

  Confusion, Empathy, Ability

  Jean Decety (2012). “Empathy: From Bench to Bedside”, p.264, MIT Press

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• The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.

  Sam Vaknin

  Ideas, Empathy, Feelings

  Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.261, Narcissus Publishing

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• The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Empathy, Listening

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• Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Empathy, Recognition

  Thomas Nagel (2016). “The Possibility of Altruism”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Empathy, Healthy, Psychological

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• To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

  Emile Durkheim

  Goal, Unattainable, Definitions

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

  William Wycherley

  Names, Giving

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in your hearts, in your homes, and in your country, assemble each evening to recite the Rosary. Let not even one day pass without saying it, no matter how burdened you may be with many cares and labors.

  Pope Pius XI

  Country, Powerful, Home

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• Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

  Edwin H Friedman

  Inspirational, Leadership, Visions Of The Future

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• What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Heart, Long

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• For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

  Helen Vendler

  Self, Expression, Criticism

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