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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.
To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.
Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.
By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
I believe that my father has become an ongoing symbol of what it means to keep on fighting for what is good in oneself, in others, and in our country.
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.
I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.
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.
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
I think it's important to spend some time with oneself, and the mountains are a great place to do that. So I go hiking and trekking often.
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.
One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?
If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
If I'm not happy with how someone is showing up, I can only be honest and hope that my feelings resonate and inspire a deeper look into oneself.
The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
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
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
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.
