Quotes on Oneself

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

To live is to express oneself freely

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

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

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.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

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

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging _x000D_ oneself.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.