Oneself Quotes - Page 27

• All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

  Hermann Hesse

  Humor, Higher

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• Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every force there is a counterforce. Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao. Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.

  Laozi

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Practice, Knowing

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• I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Want, Limits

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• Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

  Michael Jackson

  Powerful, Offering, People

  Michael Jackson (2004). “In Sierra Leone”, p.135, Duke University Press

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• I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

  Laura Riding

  Believe, Magic, Doe

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• Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Knowing, Joy, Empowerment

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.219, Hay House, Inc

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• Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

  Adi Shankara

  Consciousness, Bliss, Should

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• When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

  Nyogen Senzaki

  Running, Spiritual, Worry

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• The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Sacrifice, Important, Civilized Nations

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.

  Peter Stafford

  Sweet, Cactus, Peyote

  Peter Stafford (2013). “Psychedelics Encyclopedia”, p.133, Ronin Publishing

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• There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Love Is, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.125, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

  William George Jordan

  Block, Angel, Self Confidence

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.21, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

  Tove Jansson

  Self Reliance, All Alone, Over It

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.118, Macmillan

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• One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Courage, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.19, Routledge

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• When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

  William Hazlitt

  Competition, Progress, Doe

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• One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

  Robert Collier

  Believe, True Or False, Affirmation

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of Power”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself.

  Jill Purce

  Trying, Sound, Self Knowledge

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• As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.

  Carl Jung

  Creative, Age, Trying

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• THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Book, Wells

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• All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Spring, Greed, Suffering

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• It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Ridiculous, Shows

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• Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

  Archimedes

  World, Rise Above

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• To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

  Sigmund Freud

  Best Effort, Honest, Humans

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