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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.
Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"
I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.
There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.
One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.
Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.
Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
