Oneself Quotes

All these older kids here, and I’m the only one from a town that’s so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you’d run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

One should read Borges more.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

That’s the thing about writers – on one hand everything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.