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"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." »Marlene Dietrich
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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." »Bruce Lee
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"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." »Albert Camus
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility." »Pablo Picasso
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"Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can't think of anything else to do they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don't want them to they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live." »Harold Howe II
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"I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him He was nowhere else to be found." »Jalal ud-Din Rumi
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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object." »Simone de Beauvoir
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"One must really have suffered oneself to help others." »Mother Theresa
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"To understand is to forgive, even oneself." »Alexander Chase
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"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself." »Jean Anouilh
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"The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself." »Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
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"To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself." »Seneca
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"To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." »Sigmund Freud
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"To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself." »Simone Weil
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." »Oscar Wilde
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"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." »Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629-1689
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"The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." »Michel de Montaigne
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"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places." »Samuel Butler
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"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure." »F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote." »Benjamin Franklin, ?
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"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." »Iris Murdoch
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"There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion." »Anatole France
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"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life." »Queen Christina
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