To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself
Seneca
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When digging graves for others, one must be careful not to bury oneself.
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourse...
BRYANT MCGILL The first step of understanding about own wisdom is to keep oneself always at a safe distance from w...
ANUJ SOMANY Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.
ALLAN LOKOS I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
CATHERINE MADSEN Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Starting small does not mean one is ready to mortgage ones future,but it just shows one is willing t...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
OSCAR WILDE To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
ALBERT CAMUS One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.
MARTY RUBIN A person whose mind has got opened does not like to find around oneself often the people.
ANUJ SOMANY I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
RABIH ALAMEDDINE In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We con...
ALBERT CAMUS To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
EARL NIGHTINGALE To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself
EARL NIGHTINGALE Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in ...
JACQUES LACAN Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
HOWARD AIKEN To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
BRUCE LEE "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
BRUCE LEE Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
OSCAR WILDE Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
DōGEN To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
CY TWOMBLY To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the stren...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.
PAUL CéZANNE Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better p...
CYRIL CUSACK Dream your own dreams,
be your own person and image,
no matter the extremes.
KAYEC JONES Risk is the unique path to success.
ADRIA J. CIMINO Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to conv...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
LOREN EISELEY My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees o...
RENE MAGRITTE I don't care for others thoughts on oneself, I care for oneself' thoughts on oneself
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.
RAHEEL FAROOQ To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A person who enjoys the company of false friends or pretending people around is not ever safe and on...
ANUJ SOMANY When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deser...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself.
EDWIN A. ABBOTT My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees o...
RENE MAGRITTE One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with on...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o...
THOMAS SZASZ I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself....
WALKER PERCY Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO It's not enough to have the feathers.
You must dare to fly!
CASS VAN KRAH A person who does not feel like making fool of oneself only by saying usually to the people is most ...
ANUJ SOMANY What is done for another is done for oneself
LATIN PROVERB I cannot start a sentence without I
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive o...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passiv...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Denying God is denying oneself and denying oneself is denying God.
CASSIO DE NOVA' Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
ORHAN PAMUK To separate oneself or one
JOSEPH CAMPBELL One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at on...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE you must find yourself before you can know where you belong, yet to find yourself first you must kno...
ANDREW JAMES PRITCHARD A person should not be so dumb to say that loving oneself is only true to oneself because everyone l...
ANUJ SOMANY Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy...
PABLO PICASSO In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON True liberty cannot be attained if one lives in fear. Fear exists if one does not nourish oneself wi...
JONATHAN CHEN Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with one...
LAO TZU The greatest sense of inner peace is not having to prove oneself
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Envy is an insult to oneself.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hard...
ARISTOTLE ... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself...
JERRY BRIDGES Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
ANATOLE FRANCE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE To be understood is to prostitute oneself
FERNANDO PESSOA To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
MICHAEL NOVAK To live is to feel oneself lost
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia
MICHAEL NOVAK Without confidence, there is no courage.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you.
ANGELA MAYAH SOLSTICE It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause ...
RAMANA MAHARSHI One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
BLAISE PASCAL One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
BLAISE PASCAL One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
BLAISE PASCAL The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in...
MILAN KUNDERA Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
JAY-Z To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain...
T.A. MILES For a loss of a friend does not make oneself full of sorrow, but it brings you all closer together a...
JEFFREY LEONARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD To take upon oneself not punishment, but guilt - that alone would be godlike
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One despairs of others so as not to despair too much of oneself
HENRI PETIT One's greatest challenge is to control oneself.
KAZI SHAMS One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
JACKIE KENNEDY One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt a...
R. D. LAING Never praise oneself.
BHAGWAN SWAMINARAYAN The difficult task is not to become successful, but to remain oneself throughout the process
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