Oneself Quotes
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Self esteem means having an accurate, true, concept of oneself.
Abraham J. Twerski
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Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
William Empson
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All things are already complete in oneself.
Confucius
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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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One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
Albert Einstein
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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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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
Aimee Carter
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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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When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
Plutarch
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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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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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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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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
Alexandra David-Neel
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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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There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
William S. Burroughs
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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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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.
Erving Goffman
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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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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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
Kate Morton
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf