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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. -- Albert Camus
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. -- Sigmund Freud
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde
Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things. -- Jo M
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The final mystery is oneself. -- Oscar Wilde
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. -- Henry Rollins
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. -- Emile M. Cioran
Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience. -- Wes Fesler
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -- Henri Bergson
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. -- Ethel Percy Andrus
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. -- Aldous Huxley
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing. -- Frida Kahlo
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese? -- Edith Sitwell
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
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. -- Blaise Pascal
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. -- Carlos Castaneda
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. -- Henry Rollins
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. -- Laozi
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. -- John W. Gardner
Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow. -- Marcus Aurelius
Envy is an insult to oneself. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. -- Gamaliel Bailey
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -- Iris Murdoch
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself. -- J. M. Coetzee
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. -- Evita Peron
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. -- Walter Benjamin
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. -- Paul Tillich
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. -- Soren Kierkegaard
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. -- Clara Schumann
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. -- Henri Matisse
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. -- Joseph Campbell
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. -- Ivan Turgenev
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. -- Nicolas Chamfort
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. -- Albert Einstein
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. -- Graham Greene
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. -- Milan Kundera
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. -- Cesare Pavese
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. -- Joseph Stalin
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves. -- Anthony Hopkins
We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself. -- Pope Francis
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure. -- Phylicia Rashad
One creates oneself. -- Grace Jones
Be a light unto oneself -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sometimes one barely understand oneself. -- Pope Alexander VI
It's dangerous to assert oneself. -- Jeanne Moreau
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself -- Dogen
Man's greatest victory is over oneself. -- Plato
True victory is victory over oneself. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Freeing oneself from words is liberation. -- Bodhidharma
Writing means revealing oneself to excess. -- Franz Kafka
One is not oneself every day-fortunately. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
One is oneself a fine consequence. -- Henry James
Compassion directed to oneself is humility. -- Simone Weil
Friendship with oneself is all important. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Feeling free inside oneself is being free. -- Rei Kawakubo
Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. -- Charles Spurgeon
Belief in oneself is required for healing. -- Caroline Myss
When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. -- Confucius
One never perishes through anybody but oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are already complete in oneself. -- Confucius
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Working on photography is working on oneself. -- Irving Penn
One should make morals judgements for oneself. -- Kathryn Bigelow
Pride... is the direct appreciation of oneself. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. -- Albert Camus
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. -- Simone Weil
Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation. -- Kimon Nicolaides
To understand is to forgive, even oneself. -- Alexander Chase
One eventually has enough even of oneself. -- Mason Cooley
To be naked is to be oneself. -- John Berger
Testing oneself is best when done alone. -- Jimmy Carter
Art is a way of recognizing oneself... -- Louise Bourgeois
To harm another is to harm oneself -- Socrates
Rise above oneself and grasp the world. -- Archimedes
The will to be oneself is heroism -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
To forget oneself is to be happy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Being bored is an insult to oneself. -- Jules Renard
To live is to express oneself freely -- Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. -- Michael Novak
In the end one only experiences oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. -- Max Frisch
To live is to feel oneself lost. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
To be understood is to prostitute oneself -- Fernando Pessoa
RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself. -- Ambrose Bierce
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. -- Laozi
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words. -- Paul Morabito
The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself. -- Pema Chodron
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies. -- Rose Kennedy
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself. -- Cecil Taylor
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. -- Patricia Hampl
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength -- Laozi
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. -- Aldous Huxley
There are things one must do for oneself. -- Robert Mugabe
Originality is being different from oneself, not others. -- Philip Larkin
Life is a constant challenge to know oneself. -- Rajneesh
The doctor of the future will be oneself. -- Albert Schweitzer
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. -- Jean Anouilh
One can run away from anything but oneself. -- Stefan Zweig
To examine oneself makes good use of sight. -- Zhuangzi
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns. -- Anatole France
I think poetry is best read to oneself. -- Rickie Lee Jones
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. -- Laozi
Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. -- Dalai Lama
The greatest victory is the one over oneself. -- Gautama Buddha
Anything done for another is done for oneself. -- Pope Boniface VIII
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself. -- Nadine Gordimer
To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous. -- Confucius
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. -- Carl Jung
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself. -- Henry David Thoreau
Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk. -- John C. Maxwell

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