A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Bernard Berenson

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Emile M. Cioran

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

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Stanislav Grof

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Margaret Drabble

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Bridget Riley

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
Basil Rathbone

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.
Kevyn Aucoin

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

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

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

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
John Perry Barlow

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
Patrick McGoohan

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
Arne Jacobsen

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
Lance Loud