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In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

Order, Above, Sheep

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry Rollins

Yourself, Parents, Friends

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Beginning, Romance

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud

Good, Honest, Exercise

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller

Mind, Greatest, Brain

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Advice, Pass

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Give, Able, Star

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee

Person, Study, Another

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, After, Else

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Advice, Pass

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

Work, Best, Experience

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Successful, Important, Belief

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Escape, Insane

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Lao Tzu

Violence, Rebounds

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Means, Talking, Conceal

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Someone, Hero

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Live, Away, Possible

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Yourself, Give, Learn

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus

Love, Die, Impossible

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Boredom, Refusal

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Lose, Dare, Footing

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Greatest, After

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus

Education, Others, Nor

To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Change, Wanted, Sure

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo Picasso

Success, Others, Dangerous

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso

Others, Pathetic, Necessary

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Erich Fromm

Love, Integrity, Self

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich

Love, Someone, Thoughts

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