About Oneself Quotes

#1. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

Laura Riding

#3. American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Diane Wakoski

#4. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

Mary Beth Chapman

#5. Actually it deals ("as usual" I was about to say!) with Life, Love and Death. Because nothing in fact is more important. To occupy oneself with. To think of. To worry over. To be happy about. And so on.

Ingmar Bergman

#6. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace.

Alaric Hutchinson

#7. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.

Virginia Woolf

#8. A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

Cyril Connolly

#9. Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.

Jonathan Galassi

#10. In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.

Kenny Loggins

#11. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Harriet Lerner

#12. Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.

Claudio Magris

#13. Love is not about oneself, but about the other. It's not about keeping, but about freeing. Love is not love if not shared.

Cristiane Serruya

#14. One should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

Jean Cocteau

#15. The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

Guy Finley

#16. One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

John Edward Williams

#17. The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

Maurice Blanchot

#18. He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

Hjalmar Soderberg

#19. Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

Edward James Olmos

#20. But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

Paul Gauguin

#21. We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#22. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

C. G. Jung

#23. It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.

Alfred Stieglitz

#24. Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard; how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defined, it would mean that there was something to say about me. "Sluggard" - why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career. Do not jest, it is so.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Oscar Wilde

#26. As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

Albert Camus

#27. I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.

Martha M. Moravec

#28. I hope you're feeling better about yourself too, Camille. That's an important thing, liking oneself. A good attitude infects just as easily as a bad one." "Enjoy the horses." "I always do.

Gillian Flynn

#29. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#30. We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one's whole situation ... We don't want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives.

Ernest Becker

#31. It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

Henry Allen Ironside

#32. To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

Adam Mansbach

#33. Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

Eric Kandel

#34. Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!

Steve Karagiannis

#35. Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

Albert Camus

#36. To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either "I'm all good" or "I'm worthless; I'm no good." The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon

Eknath Easwaran

#37. To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less ... selfish.

Alan Bennett

#38. As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Susan Sontag

#39. Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

Jean Cocteau

#40. Twin Flame spirituality is very pure.
It seems to be a step above individual spirituality.
I believe that is because the tf is not about oneself, but about God and all of humanity

Sienna McQuillen

#41. An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

Steve Maraboli

#42. She felt that she had revealed something to Cat, and with revealing something about oneself there always comes a sense of lightening of the load that we all carry; the load of being ourselves.

Alexander McCall Smith

#43. One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Ivan Turgenev

#44. How can one betray oneself to such a degree? What corruption greater even than power can lead us to thus deny the proof of pleasure, to hold in contempt that which we have loved? ... I could have written about chouquettes my whole life long; and my whole life long, I wrote against them.

Muriel Barbery

#45. Children were quite disturbing really. It was difficult to think about children for long. They were all fickle little nihilists and one was forever being forced to protect oneself from their murderousness.

Joy Williams

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

Roald Dahl

#47. [A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie)

A.A. Milne

#48. 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

#49. A time is one's own, Eva, when oneself and one's peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise, a man is ruined when the times change but he does not. Permit me to add, empires fall for the same reason.

David Mitchell

#50. We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.

Domenico Dolce

#51. The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.

Solange Nicole

#52. Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.

Cecelia Ahern

#53. If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

Dalai Lama

#54. Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself

Ashok Kallarakkal

#55. Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.

Ellen Galinsky

#56. To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#57. It's virtually impossible in America to be heavy and feel good about oneself.

Mary Pipher

#58. When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
many things may come to the surface.
Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
or rather, of one's mind.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#59. If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

Kate Zambreno

#60. What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living as a human being, reminding oneself of what one was, and so it mattered, and if necessary was worth a fight.

Mohsin Hamid

#61. It feels nice to know about things and about oneself.

Aporva Kala

#62. In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#63. A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

Maureen O'Hara

#64. The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Oscar Wilde

#65. One can rarely say enough about the kindness of Italians. One is always treated as a human being who needs unpredictable things - like a moment by oneself with a bottle on the beach. They have a true gift for what can only be called spontaneous delicacy.

Lawrence Osborne

#66. Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

Bilal Tanweer

#67. A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

Joseph Brodsky

#68. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.

Phil Zimmermann

#69. Discourse about the world merges with confessional discourse about oneself.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#70. One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

Carl Jung

#71. If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories

Ann Haywood Leal

#72. I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

David Rakoff

#73. To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character

Marie Leneru

#74. He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.

Ben Okri

#75. It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

David Bailey

#76. I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

Laura Riding

#77. One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

Tom Skerritt

#78. Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Michael Korda

#79. Despair is ultimately destructive to oneself and a burden to others; and that if one persists in it, the gods will sooner or later lose patience and give one something to really despair about.

Tom Robbins

#80. To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.

Virginia Woolf

#81. As one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

Lillian Hellman

#82. The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

Mary Balogh

#83. Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Alain De Botton

#84. Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Sydney J. Harris

#85. ...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#86. When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
book: stuff i think about

Sondra Faye

#87. Writing about oneself is an egotistical adventure unless the act of self-exploration revolves around the distinct goal of heightening a person's cache of knowledge, ideas, and level of self-awareness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#88. Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there - to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.

John Welwood

#89. Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

George Sand

#90. It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

Mary Travers

#91. Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Simone De Beauvoir

#92. Caring about what others think is the biggest jail one can put oneself in.

Durjoy Datta

#93. What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.

Criss Jami

#94. This invitation [to deny oneself] is less about depriving the self, and more about disowning, or renouncing a relationship with the part of ourself that is not what God created us to be.

Marilyn Vancil

#95. Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

Margaret D. Klein

#96. Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

Michael Ondaatje

#97. We think less about how others see and judge us and have the courage to ask ourselves what kind of person we are and how we might improve.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#98. I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

Roald Dahl

#99. Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett

Daniel Kahneman

#100. You wonder about a conversation with nothing concealed - its real name is hell, I believe. To disclose oneself to another is the prelude to betrayal, and betrayal makes one sick, does it not?

Irvin D. Yalom