Oneself Quotes
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!
The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.
One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.
Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
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.
One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
