Oneself Quotes

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

And you said ecstasy was a storm cloud, just before the rain would burst into the night sky, like a thousand aquatic stars-and not one single moment before.

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

But there’s certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He’s a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.