Oneself Quotes - Page 25

• Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Drug, Expressing Oneself

  "The Bold and the Beautiful" by Jiang Xueqing, Global Times, November 26, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

  Chanakya

  Spring, Lying, Elephants

  12 Copy quote

• Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

  Carl Van Vechten

  Littles, Pay, Too Much

  Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Real, Book, Fate

  7 Copy quote

• This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

  Elaine Scarry

  Teacher, Order, Sky

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.7, Princeton University Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Government, Principles

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.65, Penguin

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

  Cary Grant

  Being Myself, Difficult, Critics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Way, Recognizing

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Strong, Nice, Thinking

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

  Maria Sharapova

  Fashion, Expression, Way

  16 Copy quote

• One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Care, Firsts, Dare

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

  Nancy Horan

  Self, Different, Exile

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

  Everett Ruess

  People, Acting, And Love

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

  Deborah Tannen

  Morning, Character, Men

  11 Copy quote

• The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

  Agnes Martin

  Self, Pitfalls, Devotion

  36 Copy quote

• In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Long, People, Done

  71 Copy quote

• Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Reading, Doe

  Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.24, Broadway Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Patience, Fog, Follow Your Heart

  72 Copy quote

• The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.

  Kristine Carlson

  Adventure, World, Offers

  4 Copy quote

• To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.

  Daniel Guerin

  Eye, Moon, Reality

  7 Copy quote

• One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Impatient

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.22, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
  oneself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  People, Inspire, Challenges

  11 Copy quote

• Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Art, Writing, Noticing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.45, Random House

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

  Joan Baez

  Hardest, Knows

  5 Copy quote

• To live is to feel oneself lost.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Lost, Feels

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XIV: "Who Rules The World?", 1929.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source