Oneself Quotes
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
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That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
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There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.
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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.
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It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
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There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.
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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
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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.
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
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Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
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She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
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I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.
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So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.
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Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
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What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
