Oneself Quotes - Page 37

• Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

  Marjorie Bowen

  Doe, Ghost

  Marjorie Bowen (1948). “Mignonette: A Novel”

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• It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

  Irvin Kershner

  Pride, Perfect, Matter

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

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• The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

  Derek Walcott

  Voice, Addresses, Doe

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• The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Humanity, Aspiration, Human Condition

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• The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

  Milovan ?ilas

  Integrity, Socialism, Communism

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• It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

  Michael Tolkin

  Taken, Culture, Impossible

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• Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Religion, Followers

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• The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

  Paul Valery

  Oracles, Folly, Built

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• If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humble, Understanding, Desire

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• To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Wisdom, Thinking, Perfection

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• It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, War

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• The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Balance, Usual

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• Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

  David R. Hawkins

  Genius, Difficulty, Acknowledge

  David R. Hawkins “Along the Path to Enlightenment”, Hay House, Inc

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• Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

  Bodhidharma

  Lying, Reality, Thinking

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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• The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Society, Ancestor

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• Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

  David Shi

  Simple, Addiction, Inner Peace

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• The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

  Norman Douglas

  Life, Business, Enjoy

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• It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.

  Derek R. Audette

  Art, Creating, Thieves

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• There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  Laozi

  Desire, Sin, Enough

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Expression

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cheerful, Spirit, Habit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.720, Modern Library

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• One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Self Respect, World

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• Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

  Rose Macaulay

  Struggle, Fall, Long

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• The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Desire, Loses

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it.

  Erich Fromm

  Expression, Discipline, Missing

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