There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord

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

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
Anna Freud

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

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

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
Robert Conquest

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
Evita Peron

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

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

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Ivan Turgenev

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

To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
Michael Novak