Oneself Quotes
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One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
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Self esteem means having an accurate, true, concept of oneself.
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Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
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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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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.
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
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All things are already complete in oneself.
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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.
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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
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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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Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against 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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one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
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When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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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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That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
