Oneself Quotes - Page 21

• Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Rising

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• To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Suffering, Age, Body

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive”, p.747, Tor Books

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• As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Race, Made, Conversation

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• And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

  Margaret Drabble

  Nice, Guilt, Body

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

  Glenn Gould

  Cutting, Artist, Creative

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• All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

  Ideas, People, World

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• I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Real, Fate, Important

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

  John Edward

  Doe, Ease, Deceiving

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• The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.

  W. G. Sebald

  Years, Crow, Quality

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• When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is fulfilled; and union follows. And when union is attained, the lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved whom he loved and desired union with; and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself. To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

  Meher Baba

  Impossible Situations, Purpose, Unions

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• One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

  Anish Kapoor

  Believe, Artist, Mythology

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• One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

  Anish Kapoor

  Luxury, Doe, Aesthetic

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• If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.

  Gangaji

  Views, Suffering, Energy

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• It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

  Mary Travers

  World, One Thing

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• All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Sex, Real, Self

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• But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

  Georgette Heyer

  Real, Epic, Laughing

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• Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Character, Atheism, One Love

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• To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

  Alfred Kazin

  Pieces

  Alfred Kazin (1982). “Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present”, Horizon Pr

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• Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

  Laurie Colwin

  Lying, Men, People

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• One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

  Siegfried Lenz

  Balance, Embarrassment, Made

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• From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, World, Quiet

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Perfection, Firsts

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

  Diana Vreeland

  Lying, Interesting, Different

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

  Aleister Crowley

  Doubt, Elements, Next

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Relax, Body, Remember

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