In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.
The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.
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 most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.