Quotes About Looking At Oneself

#1. Looking at oneself in a mirror is a self-canceling phenomenon. Eyes looking into eyes make a hole which spreads out and renders one invisible. I had seen more of myself in that single glimpse of a ghostly image in the pier mirror, not knowing it was I.

Walker Percy

#2. if everything finally comes down to inward-looking self-interest, to getting more for oneself, to accumulating wealth or power, very little is left for other motivations that can be described as true, noble, good, and lovely.

John Bolt

#3. To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.

Ayya Khema

#4. To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#5. Bless the world. Let it be a wonderful world with love, peace, joy and happiness.

Amit Ray

#6. Look up at the moon; don't think about yourself.

Marty Rubin

#7. Gape long enough into a looking glass and you'll eventually see beauty. The same can be said of self-analysis, and as soon as one apes oneself, a second monkey is born.

Anthony Marais

#8. Looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.

Erich Fromm

#9. But she is right, at least in this: Looking to promote oneself at the expense of other women, setting oneself up as a creature unlike any other, is paltry device, and one that has kept us women 'in our place' for as much of time as history can recall.

Sinead Murphy

#10. The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#11. To show that you truly care, you listen.

Adora Svitak

#12. Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

Agatha Christie

#13. They say that sometimes a man cannot recognize himself in a looking-glass. It is even harder to recognize oneself in the clouded mirror of the past.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#14. Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments)

Muse

#15. To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.

Robert Silverberg

#16. No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Virginia Woolf

#17. You have to break in half to love somebody.

Robin Williams

#18. Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#19. Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.

Aldous Huxley

#20. There is greatness in everyone.
Look within yourself and discover your greatness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. 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

#22. Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe

Mike Dooley

#23. Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn't that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too.

Farish A. Noor

#24. 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

#25. Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze.

Franz Kafka

#26. In art, the Trinity is expressed in the Creative Idea, the Creative Energy, and the Creative Power - the first imagining of the work, then the making incarnate of the work, and third the meaning of the work.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#27. And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself.

James Jones

#28. The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

Sharon Salzberg

#29. Even Barbie has been redesigned with a more realistic body type and now comes in many colors. Looking around, there is a bit more room today to be oneself.

Naomi Wolf

#30. When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.

Violet Duke

#31. I believe in just doing it and not looking for excuses because who really cares in the end? No one but oneself.

Nancy Crow

#32. To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

Cole Weston

#33. Genuine security an only be obtained by looking inside our oneself.

Matthew Donnelly

#34. The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.

Albert Camus

#35. Our pasts often set our circumstances.

Katherine Russell