Top 1200 Finding Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

Without the ambition to raise oneself to life's challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

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

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I'm all about that.

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's almost as if they were created for climbing. You're taking these random rock formations and you're bringing to it this interaction. It transforms it from being this random rock into almost this piece of art. It's almost like a sculpture or something. Just by finding the handholds, finding that line up the rock. Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

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.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

Fashion is not superficial; it is a dynamic tool to transform oneself, and it can be used to command the attention of those around you.

I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.