Oneself Quotes - Page 26

• Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mean, Rights, Giving

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• All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth...to give life is to open (our) heart, and to care for life is to (give oneself) in tenderness and warmth for others, to have concern in my heart for others. Caring for life from the beginning to the end. What a simple thing, what a beautiful thing..So, go forth and don't be discouraged. Care for life. It's worth it.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Heart, Caring

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• And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Prayer, Sleep, Night

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• One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself, but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Silence, Awkward, Mind

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.41, Paulist Press

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• The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Kindness, Passion, Animal

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• Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

  Katharine Jefferts Schori

  Mean, Exercise, Self

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• Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

  Patricia Hampl

  Book, Writing, Taste

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• Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

  Patricia Hampl

  Taste, Acquired Taste

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• Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

  Patricia Hampl

  Prayer, Placement, Position

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• Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Children, Giving Up, Fighting

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• With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

  Zoroaster

  Mind, Path, Enlightened

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• Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about the ability, courage, and commitment to end the war within oneself and not quit until the job is done.

  Richard Machowicz

  Jobs, War, Commitment

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• To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

  Leo Buscaglia

  Struggle, Love Oneself, Uniqueness

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

  Asger Jorn

  Expressing Oneself

  Speech to the Penguins, 1949.

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• One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.

  David Hawkins

  Uplifting, Kind Thoughts, Benefits

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• It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Years, Two Year Olds, Long

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• For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

  Nathan Huggins

  Legacy, Slavery, Afros

  Nathan Irvin Huggins (1995). “Revelations: American History, American Myths”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Great Friend, Great Idea, Rare Things

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• The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Roots

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• To live is to express oneself freely

  Bruce Lee

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.6, Tuttle Publishing

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• One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Blame

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2157, e-artnow

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• When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

  Jean Genet

  Beautiful, Ugly, Existentialism

  Jean Genet (1987). “Querelle”, p.46, Grove Press

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• I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Common

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Judging, Way, Existential

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Use, Spirit, Holy

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