Oneself Quotes

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

One creates oneself.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

There are things one must do for oneself.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.