oneself quotes

   Vous savez bien que l'amour, c'est avant tout le don de soi! Above all, you must understand that love is the gift of oneself!

-Jean Anouilh
  Arde'  le.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

- Sir Isaiah Berlin
  Four Essays on Liberty.

   Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

-Joan Didion
  'On Self Respect', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).

What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to.One is always alone.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Cocktail Party, act1, sc.3.

Ex virtute absoluto agere nihil aliud in nobis est, quam ex ductu Rationis agere, vivere, suum esse conservare (haec tria idem significant) ex fundamento proprium utile quaerendi. To act absolutely according to virtue is nothing else in us than to act under the guidance of reason, to live so, and to preserve one's being (these three have the same meaning) onthebasis of seeking what isusefulto oneself.

- Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza Spinoza
  Ethics, bk.4, prop.24.