Oneself Quotes

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.