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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. -- Alfred Kazin
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. -- Gustav Mahler
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -- Henri Bergson
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. -- Ivan Turgenev
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. -- Samuel Butler
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing. -- Tori Amos
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
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. -- Marcus Aurelius
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. -- Richard P. Feynman
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. -- Helen Keller
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. -- Guru Nanak
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. -- Romola Garai
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. -- Robert Conquest
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better. -- Hanya Yanagihara
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. -- Jessamyn West
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. -- Debra Winger
The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself. -- Louis MacNeice
To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself. -- Dayananda Saraswati
Working on photography is working on oneself. -- Irving Penn
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. -- Virginia Woolf
SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF -- Kamil Ali
Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another. -- Gautama Buddha
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent. -- Margot Fonteyn
The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself. -- Pema Chodron
To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors. -- Wes Fesler
One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days. -- Charles Trenet
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. -- Philip Roth
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. -- Alfred Kazin
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off. -- Murray Kempton
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks. -- Ignazio Silone
In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself. -- Robert Motherwell
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself. -- Booker T. Washington
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. -- George Orwell
One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance. -- Helen Fielding
I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose. -- Cary Grant
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself. -- Henrik Ibsen
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like -- Jerome Bruner
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars. -- Craig Thompson
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. -- Carl Jung
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. -- Ram Dass
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. -- Leo Tolstoy
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. -- Gautama Buddha
The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people. -- Marcel Proust
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. -- Ayn Rand
How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord! -- Swami Vivekananda
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on. -- Pope Benedict XVI
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God. -- Francois Fenelon
But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter. -- Lewis Carroll
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many. -- Thomas Nagel
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. -- Dorothy Day
The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities. -- Isaiah Berlin
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. -- Margot Fonteyn
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster. -- Alain de Botton
To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives. -- Gilles Deleuze
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It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind. -- Barbara Pym
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself -- Harvey Fierstein
To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it. -- Kathleen Norris
When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. -- Scott Thompson
Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it's important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself. -- Emraan Hashmi
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. -- Elisabeth Elliot
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does -- and it appears to be as important to people's happiness as the total amount of money they make. -- Tom Rath
Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force. -- Eugene Gendlin

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