Oneself Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity
Soren Kierkegaard
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself
Philip James Bailey
Subject: Cheating Quotes :: Fraud QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Aaron Rich
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself
Jean Anouilh
Subject: Gifts Quotes :: Love QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Erich Fromm
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
Dame Edith Sitwell
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham J. Heschel
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Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one`s own being
Carl Gustav Jung
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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.
Paul Valery
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer
Franz Kafka
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From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant
Dalai Lama
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Graham Greene
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance
Oscar Wilde
Subject: Self-esteem Quotes :: Self-love QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The final mystery is oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Source: thinkexist.com
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
Pablo Picasso
Subject: Plagiarism QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
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Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one`s own or another`s spiritual growth.....true love is an act of ...
M. Scott Peck
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I`ve often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you`d suppose.
Cary Grant
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I don`t want people to think that awards amount to the value of an actor. Real success means involvement - to engage oneself totally in something. Unless you become involved, you will stay uninvolved. If money is your god, you will accumulate money, but l...
Harvey Keitel
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Body language in the cinema is thus very particular. The screen can transmit an image very different of the body. In life, we see each other by facing each other. In the cinema, one is astonished to discover oneself from another angle. But at the same tim...
Isabelle Huppert
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It`s a bit rough priding oneself that one isn`t too bad an actor and then finding one`s only remembered for a giggle.
Richard Widmark
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, y...
Bruce Lee
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, y...
Bruce Lee
Keywords: action :: and :: another :: any :: arts :: away :: clearly :: dislikes :: forth :: if :: in :: is :: know :: likes :: martial :: mind :: must :: notion :: of :: oneself :: opponent :: or :: person :: prejudices :: schools :: see :: so :: study :: styles :: the :: then :: throw :: to :: truth :: understand :: want :: with :: you :: yourSource: imdb.com
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At a certain point in an actor`s career it is good to say to oneself "What am I?" and then figure something out. You could call this entity an archetype as opposed to a stereotype. I believe this conclusion of self is a good thing to stick with, and explo...
Crispin Glover
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