Oneself Quotes - Page 38

• The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Orbit, Finals

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Important, Doe

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.

  Dalai Lama

  Ideas, Ego, Delusion

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• Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Emotional, Bitterness, Unhappiness

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.173, Routledge

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• Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Secret, Way

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

  Georges Braque

  Personality, Revelations, Should

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.

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• In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Attitude, Order, Discipline

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Way, Originality

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• Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Levels, Painting, Process

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• Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

  George Meredith

  Pain, Order, May

  'Vittoria' (1866) ch. 42

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• It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Jobs, Different, Opinion

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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• There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.

  Tom Robbins

  Insanity, Essentials, May

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.73, Bantam

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• Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

  Ignazio Silone

  Spiritual, Struggle, Risk

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• To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

  Susan Sontag

  Taste, Faculty, Response

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.160, Macmillan

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• To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

  Arnold Bennett

  Writing, Echoes, Cease

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• One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Experience, Taste, Helpful

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• Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Journey, Path, Steps

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.454, Shambhala Publications

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• I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

  Meher Baba

  Art, Artist

  Meher Baba (1972). “The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba”

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• Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Cheer, Mean

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• One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Effort, Unions

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

  Paul Cezanne

  Way, Distinction, Models

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• My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.

  Jonathan Raban

  Marine, Sky, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Looks, Study, Paint

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• Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

  Emily Carr

  Want, Behinds, Ideals

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Sacrifice, Artist, Self

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