The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
Cy Twombly
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao Tzu
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an... →
Paul Valery
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
A. N. Wilson
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
James Wyatt