I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
quote by John Cazale
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0017 And Where The Joy
This, then, the question
for those whom it may concern –
to find a celebration in oneself
that, as outer is, so inner;
that all truth rests within oneself –
for where else can it be found?
to love oneself – for oneself must be loveable,
or none other could be loved for true;
to know all happiness to be within;
to celebrate all this; the world a constant joy;
to find this celebration in oneself.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Just Be You
When one looks at history
We can either
Learn from the past
To adapt to the present
So you can
Face tomorrow's mysteries
The age old question
We all ask
Can we better ourselves?
To better oneself
You must be brave
To better oneself
You must know love
To better oneself
You must be strong
To better oneself
You must believe
To better oneself
You must learn to share
To better oneself
Just be you
After learning all
Of life's mysteries
One must discover
To be true to
Thine own self
Just be you
poem by Kaila George
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Self indulgences.
The one who talks much of oneself
Is doing so to conceal as much oneself.
The one who curses much oneself
Is doing so to get pity for oneself.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
quote by Cyril Cusack
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When Oneself is Known
In the finding of self,
It matters not where or when it is done.
In the finding of oneself.
That 'is' the achievement that comes,
One has won.
And in the finding of self,
Perceptions of others.
Of who that self found should be,
Can not be compared to a comfort known within.
That begins and no one else can see.
But what is known that comes eventually,
Is a feeling that is centered.
And from a core that is believed.
Leaving wherever the place one goes,
Not a place to seek in the search for self.
When oneself is known this shows.
And 'in' no one else,
Can one find self to be shown.
So many seek different environments,
To qualify what they can not identify inside.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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To Go Through All This Once Again
To go through all this once again
To witness;
All the Sadness All the Pain
The not wanting to live
The fear
The sense of going mad
The desire to escape
The inability to tolerate the very idea of oneself
The sense of one's own absolute worthlessness
The feeling it has all been a waste-
To go through all this once again
And again not be able to help
And again pray and pray
For some way out both for oneself
And the suffering one- one loves-
To go through this once again
And again be powerless and helpless and angrily painfully sad.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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Giving People Love to Seek
Sometimes it just gets in the way,
All that empathy paid...
By the giving people loving,
Seeking someone to save.
Sometimes it just gets in the way,
All that empathy paid...
By the giving people loving,
Seeking someone to save.
Sometimes it takes a bravery,
To keep what is said...
To oneself to keep oneself,
Peaceful instead.
Sometimes it takes a bravery,
To keep what is said...
To oneself to keep oneself,
Peaceful instead.
All that misery to grieve,
Causes to keep...
Pain-and-the agony,
Tea poured to heat!
All that misery to grieve,
Causes to keep...
Pain-and-the agony,
Tea poured to heat!
Get away from people...
Who refuse to know peace.
Just,
Get away from people...
Who refuse to know peace.
Sometimes it just gets in the way,
All that empathy paid...
By the giving people loving,
Seeking someone to save.
But giving people love to seek,
People in need.
Yes those giving people love to seek,
People in need.
The giving people love to seek,
People in need.
And people getting satisfaction,
Pursue beliefs!
And people getting satisfaction,
Pursue beliefs!
The people getting satisfaction,
Pursue beliefs!
And the people getting satisfaction,
Seem more at peace!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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She And He
To be a woman is to be silent and sure
To know, to be secure,
Not just about oneself but about the world,
About what's good and what's bad,
What to hold and what to void.
To be a woman is to be strong,
Not by becoming strong, not by acquiring strength:
To be a woman is to be strength itself.
To be a woman is not to speculate,
Not to know separation from the self,
Not to know death.
To be a woman is to find one's depth within oneself.
To be a woman is never to venture,
Never to stray, never to search,
But to have, as natural right,
Dominion over the earth.
To be a woman is to hold sway,
To be a woman is to be the source.
To be a man is to seek, to venture, to define-
And to find one's annihilation in woman.
[From The Serene Flame]
poem by Makarand Paranjape
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee in Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee in Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
quote by Karl Kraus
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After All These Years I Today Do Not Know What To Do With Myself
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I TODAY DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WIITH MYSELF
After all these years
I today do not know what to do with myself-
I have worked for such a long time
And now it feels as if I have no work-
I am a writer and I am writing now
So there is at least that -
But what must it be for so many retired people
Who after so many years
Find themselves with nothing to do?
How lost one is when one has so much time
And nothing to do with oneself
Except feel one's own uselessness
And inability to really do anything.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
quote by Isaac Rosenberg
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Often the best way of giving oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has.
Often the best way to give oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has.
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
quote by R.D. Laing
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