Oneself Quotes - Page 28

• It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Easy, Paint, Difficult

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• Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

  Amor Towles

  Talking, Missing, Polite

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

  Socrates

  Evil, Programming, Greater Good

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• It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Desire, Hard

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• To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

  Zhuangzi

  Sight, Use

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• The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

  James A. Baldwin

  Lying, Expectations, World

  "The shot that echoes still" by James Baldwin, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2018.

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• Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

  Alan Watts

  Faith, Letting Go

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• A new moon teaches gradualness
  and deliberation and how one gives birth
  to oneself slowly. Patience with small details
  makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
  What nine months of attention does for an embryo
  forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

  Rumi

  Morning, Moon, Giving

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• Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

  Thomas Merton

  True Relationship, Illusion, Contemplative

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• The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

  Robert Bresson

  Direct

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.9, New York Review of Books

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• Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Mean, Doe

  Chogyam Trungpa (1991). “The Heart of the Buddha”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Ambition, Blood

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• Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

  Ajahn Chah

  Meditation, Understanding, Listening

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• To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

  Ajahn Chah

  Mean, Practice

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• When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.

  Ajahn Chah

  Eye, Noses, Ears

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• Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

  Bruce Lee

  Flow, Life Is, Process

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

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• Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Men, Desire

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• Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.

  Anodea Judith

  Love Is, Harmony, States

  Anodea Judith (2012). “Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System”, p.201, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

  Douglas Coupland

  Florida, Found, Ifs

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• The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

  Iris Murdoch

  Good Life, Requirements, Life Is

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.112, Penguin

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• Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.

  Columba Marmion

  Jesus, Feet, Catholic

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• Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor; anger by goodwill and love for all men; worldly dejection by spiritual joy; listlessness by patience, perseverance and offering thanks to God; self-esteem by doing good in secret and by praying constantly with a contrite heart; and pride by not judging or despising anyone in the manner of the boastful Pharisee (cf. Lk. 18:11-12), and by considering oneself the least of all men.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Spiritual, Perseverance

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• Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state is dying to oneself, - to one's own opinions, wishes and feelings or tastes, in order to live by Divine intellect, in conformity with the Divine will and in partaking of God. In the forefront of this endeavor is our Lord and Savior. He surrendered the whole of Himself to God the Father, and us in Himself, 'For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones' (Eph. 5:30). So let us hasten in His footsteps?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Father, Sacrifice

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• What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

  Agatha Christie

  Travel, America, Revolution

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• For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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