Sentences with Oneself, Sentences about Oneself
1. To build a fire under oneself.
2. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
3. Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
4. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
5. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
6. Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
7. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
8. To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
9. Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.
10. Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
11. Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
12. No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
13. To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
14. The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
15. My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
16. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
17. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
18. Genuine love should first be directed at oneself if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?
19. Genuine love should first be directed at oneself; if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?
20. There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
21. To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
22. Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
23. Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
24. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
25. If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
26. 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.
27. While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.
28. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
29. It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
30. It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one’s treasure will not win one anyone’s favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone’s camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
31. The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
32. Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can’t put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you’re doing it from a position of correction.
33. Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today’s standards.
34. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one.
35. And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.
