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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself. — Eric Kandel

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. — Mariah Nelson

To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world. — Adam Mansbach

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself. — Edward James Olmos

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started — Jean Cocteau

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. — Albert Camus

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. — Oscar Wilde

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less ... selfish. — Alan Bennett

Love is not about oneself, but about the other. It's not about keeping, but about freeing. Love is not love if not shared. — Cristiane Serruya

To be able to be oneself and not have to disown one's values to please another - That is what intimate love is all about. — Milton Avery

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place. — Amit Abraham

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski

Spiritual awakening refers to a dramatic expansion in consciousness rather than a minor realization about oneself. — Jordan Jacobs

Caring about what others think is the biggest jail one can put oneself in. — Durjoy Datta

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces. — Liv Ullmann

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others. — Oscar Wilde

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself. — Henry Allen Ironside

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success. — Steve Maraboli

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze — Rasheed Ogunlaru

It feels nice to know about things and about oneself. — Aporva Kala

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. — Sydney J. Harris

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett — Daniel Kahneman

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. — Carl Jung

It's virtually impossible in America to be heavy and feel good about oneself. — Mary Pipher

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character — Marie Leneru

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. — Mary Balogh

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. — Ivan Turgenev

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect. — Dalai Lama

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. — Plato

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda

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

He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality. — Ben Okri

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. — Richard P. Feynman

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage. — Emile Chartier

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve. — Wm. Paul Young

As one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself. — Lillian Hellman

If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories — Ann Haywood Leal

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. — Michael Ondaatje

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires. — George Sand

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. — Alain De Botton

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent, — Milan Kundera

The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself — Guy Finley

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself. — Mary Travers

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself. — Albert Camus

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde

Revenge is solely about passion. Rage. Fury. Vengeance, on the other hand, is about retribution for a crime done against oneself. — Pete Kahle

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us. — Amor Towles

Ethan knows more about himself than he ever wanted to know, and I know less than I should. — Mary E. Pearson

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone De Beauvoir

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie) — A.A. Milne

Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition. — Laurie Nadel

Look up at the moon; don't think about yourself. — Marty Rubin

One must learn to love oneself- thus do I teach- with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy. — Virginia Woolf

Self-abuse is an infringement on one's own destiny caused by either ignorance about oneself or negligence of one's purpose! — Israelmore Ayivor

When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
book: stuff i think about — Sondra Faye

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. — Stephen Fry

A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar. — Eloisa James

One ought not talk about oneself, it may hide Jesus from view. — Bo Giertz

The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself. — Solange Nicole

We think less about how others see and judge us and have the courage to ask ourselves what kind of person we are and how we might improve. — Gyalwa Dokhampa

Describing colors to a blind is what writing is all about. — Viraj J. Mahajan

Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany. — Claudio Magris

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. — Albert Camus

When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about. — Patti Digh

The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves — R. Alan Woods

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl

Discourse about the world merges with confessional discourse about oneself. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself — Ashok Kallarakkal

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. — Orson Scott Card

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries. — Sara Levine

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. — Laura Riding

Telling others about oneself is ... no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno