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" Quotes and Sayings About oneself

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Know Study Action Process
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

But Found Sure Only
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Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Best Alone Done Testing
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Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.

One Another Can Depend
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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.

Between Human Qualities Little
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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.

Travel Downward Road Constantly
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Yourself Stone Friends Parents
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Woth Laughter Strength Abandon
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
About Also Conceal Means
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Actual Bear Done Else
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Advantage Doing Exactly Lay
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Dare Footing Lose Oneself
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Admit Always Fruitful Had
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Boredom Despairing Evil Oneself
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Being Entirely Exercise Good
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Beings Hating Human Human Beings
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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.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Able Aware Become Fright
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Accuse Begun Complete Education
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Craving Giving Having Mother
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One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Does Eye Human Meet
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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.

Belongs Class Culture How
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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.

Assume Being False Feel
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One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later

Demonstrated To art Emotion Future
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Bigger Given Her Hero
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Advice Any Good Good Advice
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Advice Always Any Good
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Ask Become Begin Experience
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Beginning Lifelong Love Oneself
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Because Containing Face Invested
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Root Discipline Sense Dignity
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Happiness lies in conquering one’s enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Happiness Conquering Enemies Driving
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Accompanied Cause Idea Oneself
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With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

Open Mind Listen Highest
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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.

Chain First Right Mistake
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Because Misery Does Love
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Any Believed Could Curious
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Amusing Boring Considered Everything
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“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”

Prayers Aking Oneself Hands
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Escape Finding Insane Life
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Before Condemning Deal Good
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

Rejected Understood Prostitute Prefer
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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.

Always Another Being Being Human
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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

Say Things Feels Other
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

Age Being Earliest Even
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

Almost Confidence Consciousness Dignity
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There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.

Belongs Exist Faith Faiths
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Difficult Love Love Is Oneself
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