Oneself Quotes

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one’s relationship with the spiritual master.

One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.