The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.
The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.
Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies. . . Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.