Top 1200 Finding Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.

Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place.

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

One should be alert and know how to defend oneself in case something untoward happens.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

It is not coincidence that makes a designer but his continuity. And continuity means working and searching, working and fighting, working and finding, finding and seeing, seeing and communicating, and again working and searching. Designers must challenge the past, must challenge the present, must challenge the future; but first of all, designers must be true to themselves. Design is attitude.

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that I’m impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

For me, it's just finding ways to create shots. I feel like if I got a shot off, it has a good chance of going in. So it's finding ways of creating different shots. Being smart. I watch film a lot, and different tricks that I can do to get my shot off the ball and creating ways to get shots off of pick-and-rolls or one-on-one situations like that.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.