The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

It is finally a word is untimely in three different senses and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Beauty is about perception not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up or dress yourself or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Having a clear faith based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

I don't watch television I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

There is nothing like being left alone again to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe and to think idly and slowly as one does it.