The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
Trust is a good way to get oneself killed
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i. e. , from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.
My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.
one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even. . . Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.