Oneself Quotes - Page 29

• Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

  Harriet Lerner

  Stories, Matter, Storytelling

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Watches, Minutes

  Fourth Public Talk, Bombay, (Mumbai), India, February 17, 1971.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, World, Transformation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.72, Rajpal & Sons

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding

  36 Copy quote

• Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Fate, Destiny

  15 Copy quote

• Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Music, Philosophy, Useless

  26 Copy quote

• Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Mean, Victory, Gains

  225 Copy quote

• To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Harmony, Be Good, Discord

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Courier Corporation

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

  Eugenia Price

  Laughter, Proof, Healed

  13 Copy quote

• The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, Persistence, Empathy

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

  Philip Roth

  Discipline, Orbit

  Philip Roth (2007). “Exit Ghost”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Self, Giving

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Home, Curse, Continents

  43 Copy quote

• May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Giving, Remembrance, May

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Thorough Knowledge, Shy

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.309, Shambhala Publications

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

  Dogen

  Forget, Opening

  15 Copy quote

• When we care for others our own strength to live increases. When we help people expand their state of life, our lives also expand. Actions to benefit others are not separate from actions to benefit oneself. Our lives and the lives of others are ultimately inseparable.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  People, Benefits, Care

  14 Copy quote

• Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Hands, Love And Kindness

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

  Alain de Botton

  Difficulty

  8 Copy quote

• Working on photography is working on oneself.

  Irving Penn

  Photography

  34 Copy quote

• An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Men, Ignorant

  38 Copy quote

• Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

  Aimee Mullins

  Self, Doubt, May

  21 Copy quote

• It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

  Bruce Lee

  Lying, Cocky, Easy

  22 Copy quote

• One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• Seeks to grow and improve oneself through creative activity, freely expressing one’s exuberant vitality, and through warm, supportive encouragement of others.

  Stephen Arroyo

  Encouragement, Creative, Supportive

  Stephen Arroyo, Jerilynn Marshall (1989). “Chart Interpretation Handbook: Guidelines for Understanding the Essentials of the Birth Chart”, p.36, Dubois Publishing

  8 Copy quote

  Show source