Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.

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

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

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