Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.
Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.
Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.
One should be alert and know how to defend oneself in case something untoward happens.
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.
Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.