217 Oneself Quotes for You to Enjoy

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself. Pope Francis

Work Love Good World Will Men Own Live Society Increased Increases Others Ensure Possibly Must Oneself More Observed Until Equal His Selfishness Than Expertise Which Each Strengths

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. Daisaku Ikeda

Hope Moving Forward Suffering Light Tomorrow Own Energy Action Others Oneself Takes New Transformed Moving Forward Keep Illuminating

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson

Change Oneself Go Exist Mature Endlessly Creating

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse

Happiness Work Good Day Fog Oneself Surrounds Us Derive Illuminating

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Truth Good Me Fear Independence Sacrifice Holding Conviction Believe Else Everything Everything Else One Thing Finer About Oneself Points Envisage Opinions Intellectual Persecution Questions End Than May Which Less Many Thing

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. Simone Weil

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard

Evil Despairing Boredom Oneself Refusal Root

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. Pablo Picasso

Others Oneself Pathetic Necessary Copy

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. Eldridge Cleaver

Other Hating Oneself Price Human Human Beings Loving Less Beings

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. Joan Baez

Forgiveness Oneself Know Hardest

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Mahatma Gandhi

Religion Matter Own Else Oneself No-One Between Maker After

Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one's heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That's strength. Marjorie Liu

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso

Success Dangerous Others Oneself More Leads Than Begins Success Is Copy

Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. Viktor E. Frankl

Human Being Other Someone Oneself Something Directed Points Another Always Encounter Than Human Being Being Human Meaning Fulfill

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. Aldous Huxley

Life Thinking Prolonged Oneself Prevent Most Effort

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. Diane Paulus

Me People Feeling Edge Ocean Lost Definition About Oneself Something Look Cathedral Go Than Mountaintop Going Bigger Themselves Reason Why Larger Awe Spectacle

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments. Gordon B. Hinckley

Attitude God Gratitude Acceptance Meekness Power Recognition Spirit Oneself Implies Beyond Greater Opposed His Self-Sufficiency Commandments Acknowledgement

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall. John Berger

Intelligence Enemy Impossible Fall Military Strategy Defeat Think Oneself Superpower Take Lead Empires How Surprise Foresee Being Cannot Place Military Intelligence Unique Strategically Imagine

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. Lao Tzu

Oneself Well Always Even Violence

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. Loren Eiseley

Reflection Other Meet Eye Oneself Until Does Than Human

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing Difficult Oneself Deceiving

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. Marlene Dietrich

Love Thoughts Joy Recognized Find Someone Oneself Wiser Beautifully Because Than Authority Quotations Might Much Expressed

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