When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
I think poetry is best read to oneself.
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
To live is to feel oneself lost.
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
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.
What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.
The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
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.
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.