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Oneself Quotes

Always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve Picture Quote #1

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student Picture Quote #1

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us Picture Quote #1

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link Picture Quote #1

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better Picture Quote #1

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy Picture Quote #1

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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness Picture Quote #1

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one’s powers than the other Picture Quote #1

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living Picture Quote #1

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much Picture Quote #1

Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others Picture Quote #1

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community Picture Quote #1

One had to immerse oneself in one’s surroundings and intensely study nature or one’s subject to understand how to recreate it Picture Quote #1

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make Picture Quote #1

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We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself Picture Quote #1

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty Picture Quote #1

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others Picture Quote #1

Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing Picture Quote #1

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be Picture Quote #1

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle Picture Quote #1

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Always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve (Oneself Quotes) Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student (Oneself Quotes) Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us (Oneself Quotes) One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link (Oneself Quotes) Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better (Oneself Quotes) The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy (Oneself Quotes) To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness (Oneself Quotes) 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 (Oneself Quotes) I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness (Oneself Quotes) To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one’s powers than the other (Oneself Quotes) I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful (Oneself Quotes) 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 (Oneself Quotes) It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living (Oneself Quotes) There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much (Oneself Quotes) Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others (Oneself Quotes) The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community (Oneself Quotes) One had to immerse oneself in one’s surroundings and intensely study nature or one’s subject to understand how to recreate it (Oneself Quotes) To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make (Oneself Quotes) We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself (Oneself Quotes) It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty (Oneself Quotes) The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others (Oneself Quotes) Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing. (Oneself Quotes) We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. (Oneself Quotes) For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle. (Oneself Quotes)

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