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Tag Name "Oneself" (1109)

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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.
S. N. Goenka
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the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.
Sally Helgesen
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A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.
Sam Keen
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.
Robert Collier
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Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.
Samael Aun Weor
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Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having a good life oneself. Even if that is true, it does not render morality incredible, but it does raise a question about morality's authority: about what one has most reason to do when one is faced with a conflict of this kind.
Samuel Scheffler
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One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself, but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?
Robert K. Greenleaf
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I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
Scott Kahn
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
Seamus Heaney
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In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
Robert Motherwell
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
Seneca the Younger
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It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
Robert Penn Warren
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All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.
Shantideva
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To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.
Robert Silverberg
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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeish
Sheena Iyengar
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At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.
Robin Lee
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In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.
Shirley Hazzard
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The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.
Roger Housden
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Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.
Shomei Tomatsu
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