Oneself Quotes - Page 30

• Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Rights, People, Development

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

  Diane Paulus

  Ocean, People, Feelings

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

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• Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if only for a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Art, Sex, Wall

  Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To live is to express, and to express you have to create.  Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Creation, Repetition

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

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• In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Democracy, Ifs

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• I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all.
  It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from
  creeping in.

  Akshay Kumar

  Thinking, Romance, Important

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• Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.

  Jacques Lusseyran

  Thinking, Brain, Suffering

  Jacques Lusseyran (2016). “Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness”, p.143, New World Library

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• Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Exercise, Zest, Giving

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• The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Use, Stories, Minutes

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• A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

  Paloma Picasso

  Pieces, Way, Messages

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• A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power.

  Mason Jennings

  Ego, Metaphor, Behavior

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• What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

  Thomas Frank

  Ethos, Trying, Culture

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• It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Winning, Finding The One, Risk

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• For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.

  Xavier Forneret

  Revenge, Heart, Dark

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• How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Credit, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

  James Meade

  Understanding, Fields, Expanding

  "James E. Meade - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2014.

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• But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Fighting, Inner Strength

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

  Mike Mason

  Love, Spiritual, Religious

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• ... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Age, Always Be Happy

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1429, e-artnow

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• The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Acceptance, Simple, Clear Head

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• When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Son, Scripture

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• Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

  Erich Fromm

  Tyrants, Goal, Enemy

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not only follow the proper guidelines to cleanse, purify, and prevent disease, but also uplift oneself into a realm of awareness previously unknown.

  Vasant Lad

  Uplifting, Aggravation, Medicine

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• An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiring, Art, Dual Nature

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• Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.168, Psychology Press

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