Oneself Quotes
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To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.
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A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.
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Self esteem means having an accurate, true, concept of oneself.
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Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
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one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
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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!
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If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
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All things are already complete in oneself.
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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.
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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.
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
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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.
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Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
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When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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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.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
