Oneself Quotes - Page 32

• It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

  Bessie Head

  Generosity, Laughing, Feelings

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• The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

  Colum McCann

  Flight, Reason, Enough

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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• It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Awakening, Impossible

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do things diligently, delightfully but differently.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Skills, Challenges

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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• To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.

  Michelle Cruz

  Understanding, Doe, Inward

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• I think poetry is best read to oneself.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Thinking, Poetry Is

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• Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Helping Others, People

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
  many things may come to the surface.
  Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
  As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
  All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
  or rather, of one's mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Watches, May

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• The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

  James A. Baldwin

  Distance, Play, Roles

  "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy". Esquire, May 1961.

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• One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

  Donald Johanson

  Commitment, Successful, Pursuit

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Forever, Conversation, Here And Now

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• To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

  Edmond Rostand

  Hero, Faces, Danger

  Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Dedication, Causes, Sides

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• The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.

  James A. Baldwin

  Children, Stronger, World

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• To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Business, Stupid, Danger

  "Garden of Tortures". Book by Octave Mirbeau, 1899.

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• To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, One Day

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• To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Effort, Cost, Able

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• To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doubt, Age, Quests

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams”, p.81, Bantam

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• Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

  Joan D. Chittister

  Real, Failure, Able

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• Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

  Carl Jung

  War, Neurosis, Mental Illness

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Want, Taste

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.117, Penguin

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• Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hypocrisy, Form, Refined

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• Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Mean, Feelings

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

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• The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Ambition, Way, Pushing

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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