Oneself Quotes - Page 24

• Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Life And Love, Attitude

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.53, Souvenir Press

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• Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Peace, Animal, Rights

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• In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Life, Dark, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

  Morarji Desai

  Life, Change, Gratitude

  "Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline?" by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, (p. 44), 2014.

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• It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Differences, Words Of Wisdom, Pieces

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

  Watchman Nee

  Self, Hoarding, Gains

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.370, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

  James E. Faust

  Integrity, Law, Three

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• It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

  Anatole France

  Learning, Amusing

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• If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

  Gautama Buddha

  Judgment, Should, Masters

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• Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one's community, to one's country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.

  Alexander Lowen

  Faith, Country, Animal

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• It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Lying, Gambling, Offering

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• Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

  David Bain

  Honesty, Sanity, Found

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• Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, Liberty, Obedience

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• The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

  Frank Herbert

  Humanity, Contribution

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• One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

  Andre Suares

  People, Humanity, Being Different

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• Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Tired, Healthy

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• I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Littles, Arcs, Knowing Oneself

  Quoted in Figaro Litteraire (1958)

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• To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

  Brand Blanshard

  Thinking, Currents

  Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.493, Routledge

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• Successful living does not mean accumulating material things, it means inner peace of mind; it means that gift of being able to adjust oneself to everyone else; it also means that all your needs for daily living will be taken care of by God.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Life, Taken, Mean

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• Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

  Rajneesh

  Feeling Alone, Solitude, Needs

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• One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

  Freya Stark

  Luck, Nuisance, Done

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• There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, World, Method

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

  Joseph Albo

  Animal, Blood, Killing

  Joseph Albo (1929). “ספר העקרים: book of principles”, [Philadelphia

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• The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

  David Rosen

  Mean, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

  John Perry Barlow

  Political, Degrees, Engagement

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August/September 2004.

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