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It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Being bored is an insult to oneself. — Jules Renard

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. — Ramana Maharshi

Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from your
desk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin. — Gina Greenlee

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right
especially when one is right. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being. — Mark Steyn

Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being. — Bryant McGill

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. — C.S. Lewis

Being in touch with oneself is the meaning of meditation, to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different. — Paulo Coelho

The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. — Kobo Abe

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do. — Bruce Lee

If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love. — Martin Buber

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. — Milan Kundera

I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, The world will never understand. — Nadege Richards

The loneliest place that one could ever find oneself is in a place of not being comfortable in one's own skin — Marcelle Hinkson

Being self-conscious. Treating one's self as an other. Supervising oneself. — Susan Sontag

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me. — Anna Freud

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. — Eugene Delacroix

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! — Jules Verne

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. — Ruth Rendell

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection. — Ignatius Of Loyola

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

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 has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. — Freya Stark

It was like being in love with the sun: brilliant and intoxicating to be near, but impossible to keep to oneself. — Alma Katsu

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer

I find that being oneself is an excellent choice, as everyone else is already taken. — April White

Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement. — Mary Jane Walker

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese? — Edith Sitwell

Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others. — David R. Hawkins

It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself. — William Kennedy

[T]he act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help. — Irvin D. Yalom

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life. — Sri Chinmoy

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening ... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?' — Bob Corker

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. — Gloria Steinem

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. — Carl Jung

Omigosh - I'm a squash! — Dave Horowitz

That was the mark of genuine beauty. Not being beautiful oneself, but making everything around them beautiful. — Sean DeLauder

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Unkindness is being unkind to oneself.-Fida Fayez Qutob — Fida Fayez Qutob

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

Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself. — Anodea Judith

Being angry is to punish oneself for others' mistakes; however, I am not the one who should be punished. — Hsu Tzu

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. — Gerald Brenan

Feeling free inside oneself is being free. — Rei Kawakubo

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. — Virginia Woolf

Originality is being different from oneself, not others. — Philip Larkin

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. — H. Rider Haggard

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. — Gloria Steinem

Those who truly love and respect you will respect your boundaries. I think freeing oneself from codependency and fear is vital for well-being. — Maria Canals Barrera

The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it. — Rene Daumal

Being able to say "I'll try again" is one of the deepest expressions of faith in oneself. When — Linda Myoki Lehrhaupt

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. — Denis Diderot

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free. — Theo Van Doesburg

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Edward Benson

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. — G.I. Gurdjieff

One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. — Ginnifer Goodwin

committing oneself to being fashionable was simultaneously committing oneself to being perishable. I — Kathleen Rooney

If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit! — Michel De Montaigne

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception. — Mahatma Gandhi

Looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person. — Erich Fromm

The problem with carnal anger and outrage is that it's one of the easiest sins to commit while convincing oneself that one is being faithful. The — Russell D. Moore

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. — Patricia Hampl

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings. — Fernand Pouillon

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

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed. — Amitav Ghosh

true excellence does not come from being superior to others, but means surpassing oneself time and again. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan. — Winston Graham

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

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone De Beauvoir

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. — Sigmund Freud

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. — Aubrey Menen

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. — Edward St. Aubyn

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth. — Larry McMurtry

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center. — Richie Norton