oneself Quotes

“There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself.”

“What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us.”

“The issue with spies is not that there is something brilliant with them. It is that there is something wrong with us.”

“You, woman, shall know yourself and your work. You also shall be Psyche.”

“To ask, ‘What’s best for me’ is finite thinking. To ask, ‘What’s best for us’ is infinite thinking.”

“The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.”

“You are still here. And that is everything.”

“Because, without intending it, I have put into it some expression of all this curious artistic idolatry, of which, of course, I have never cared to speak to him. He knows nothing about it. He shall never know anything about it. But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. There is too much of myself in the thing, Harry—too much of myself!”

They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self.