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Quotes about oneself




It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield / 






A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 






I accept the great adventure of being me.
Simone de Beauvoir / 



I accept the great adventure of being me.




Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 






The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 






Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy / 






The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 






To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution / 



To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.




Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard / 



Don't forget to love yourself.




If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung / 






To be in love is to surpass one's self.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray / 






Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Francis Bacon / 






The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein / 






Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
Confucius / 






When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Oscar Wilde - The soul of man under socialism / 



When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.




Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Laozi / 






If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are.
Selma Lagerlöf / 



If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are.




There is no higher rule than that over oneself, over one's impulses: there is the triumph of free will.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 






Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde ? - Quotation of uncertain origin / 






Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






I is another.
Arthur Rimbaud / 






Demand much from yourself, little from others, and you will prevent discontent.
Confucius / 






He who knows the art of living with oneself ignores boredom.
Desiderius Erasmus / 






To act freely is to retake possession of oneself; it is to place oneself back in pure duration.
Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness / 






Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud / 






It often happens that we are respected in proportion as we respect ourselves.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 






Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi / 



Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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