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Oneself Quotes

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness Picture Quote #1

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long Picture Quote #1

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself Picture Quote #1

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam Picture Quote #1

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future Picture Quote #1

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? Picture Quote #1

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Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible Picture Quote #1

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times Picture Quote #1

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else Picture Quote #1

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one’s own cherished beliefs Picture Quote #1

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity Picture Quote #1

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it’s all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It’s what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers Picture Quote #1

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I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves Picture Quote #1

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it Picture Quote #1

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people Picture Quote #1

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself Picture Quote #1

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality Picture Quote #1

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring Picture Quote #1

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Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration Picture Quote #1

To shut one’s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice Picture Quote #1

If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others Picture Quote #1

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all Picture Quote #1

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself Picture Quote #1

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know Picture Quote #1

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It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself Picture Quote #1

I believe that true identity is found... in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own Picture Quote #1

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself Picture Quote #1

One should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started Picture Quote #1

How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself? Picture Quote #1

How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence Picture Quote #1

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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness (Oneself Quotes) One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long (Oneself Quotes) There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself (Oneself Quotes) One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam (Oneself Quotes) To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future (Oneself Quotes) To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? (Oneself Quotes) Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible (Oneself Quotes) To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times (Oneself Quotes) One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else (Oneself Quotes) Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one’s own cherished beliefs (Oneself Quotes) To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity (Oneself Quotes) Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it’s all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It’s what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers (Oneself Quotes) I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves (Oneself Quotes) Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it (Oneself Quotes) The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people (Oneself Quotes) My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself (Oneself Quotes) To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality (Oneself Quotes) When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring (Oneself Quotes) Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration (Oneself Quotes) To shut one’s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice (Oneself Quotes) If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others (Oneself Quotes) Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all (Oneself Quotes) Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself (Oneself Quotes) Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know (Oneself Quotes) It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself (Oneself Quotes) I believe that true identity is found... in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own (Oneself Quotes) Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself (Oneself Quotes) One should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started (Oneself Quotes) How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself? (Oneself Quotes) How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence (Oneself Quotes)

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