Oneself Quotes
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.
Dacia Maraini
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Self esteem means having an accurate, true, concept of oneself.
Abraham J. Twerski
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It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
Seneca the Younger
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Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
Walter Bonatti
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
Seamus Heaney
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I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?
Everett Ruess
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I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.
P. G. Wodehouse
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All things are already complete in oneself.
Confucius
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From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition!
Anton Webern
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
William Golding
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If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
Thomas Keating
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one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
Stevie Smith
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
Alexandra David-Neel
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Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
William Empson
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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
Aimee Carter
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Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.
Abdellah Taia
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
Plutarch
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Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
Vincent Van Gogh
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That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
Aubrey Menen
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
Henry Rollins Black Flag