In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Me personally, I’m a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.
The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.
What someone wears is an expression of oneself. When you’re just comfortable with what you’re wearing, you don’t have new thoughts. I want people to feel something and think about who they are.
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.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. It’s a never ending study, once we have learned to love, we will learn to live. Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me!’
Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Without the ambition to raise oneself to life’s challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year.
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.
It’s dangerous to assert oneself.
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It’s a way to communicate oneself.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary – that seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
To me I think leadership is activism. It’s giving back to your community, it’s investing in oneself, and you know women and children.
My clothes don’t make one a different person, just more of oneself.
I totally have the ability to laugh at myself. I don’t think one should take oneself seriously, ever. As long as you are not hurting my sentiments by revealing personal details or talking badly about my family, I’m absolutely fine.
If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I’ve done very well.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I’m all about that.
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn’t worth the trouble put in.
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that’s such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
One must not make oneself cheap here – that is a cardinal point – or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.
It’s a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
It may seem that with the new breed of actors – Arjun, Varun, Siddharth, Ayushmann, Sushant – there is suddenly too much of a hustle to make space for oneself, but acting is subjective. And we motivate one another.
Success is a matter of one’s own feeling about oneself.
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that’s what I do, even if it displeases.
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
I believe that being honest to oneself and one’s work is all that matters.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages – from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman – have thought it wise to understand oneself and one’s behavior.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it’s like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle.
In novels, and American novels in particular, it’s not just about redemption, it’s about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
One should make morals judgements for oneself.
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.
For conservatives, every policy solution starts with an individual picking oneself up, acknowledging his or her mistakes, as a first step to improving his or her circumstances.
Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one’s life – or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one’s growth.
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.
