Oneself Quotes
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To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
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The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.
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Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.
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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
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For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
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[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
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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.
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It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
