Self Quotes - Page 22

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

The moment you are more interested and obsessed to others you begin to loose your Self . It's so insane that you again seek others to help find self.

The world from it self is a brutal one.

Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other's perspective that they always think you are.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

You can Transform into a Super-Soul! If you align your physical and mental (logical/emotional) self with your core self (or soul being), then you will know your personal path, and find ways to follow it to fulfillment. You can learn how to best nurture your body, plus train your mind as an empowering tool to enhance your overall balance, strength, and unique skills, so that you achieve your goals, as well as optimise your well-being.

If you forget who you've become remember who you are

Self care is a sacred-self love.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Only Give up,When Your Hearts Gives up.(Don't Give up, till your Last Breath)

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.

If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had fallen asleep and, when I woke in the middle of the night, since I did not know where I was, I did not even understand in the first moment who I was; all I had, in its original simplicity, was the sense of existence as it may quiver in the depths of an animal; I was more bereft than a caveman; but then the memory - not yet of the place where I was, but of several of those where I had lived and where I might have been - would come to me like help from on high to pull me out of the void from which I could not have got out on my own; I passed over centuries of civilization in one second, and the image confusedly glimpsed of oil lamps, then of wing-collar shirts, gradually recomposed my self's original features.

How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my natural boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?

When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the ocean is also within us. The idea that things exist outside of our Consciousness is an illusion. Ancient wisdom traditions have known this for centuries, and even modern science has recognized that our sense organs merely receive information and project it within our own minds. Vision does not take place in the eye, but in an area located in the back of the brain. Everything that we perceive to be “out there” is being experienced “in here.

Your personality of the mind is like a castle of sand around the sea. The time you begin to disassociate yourself with different experiences and impressions of both the external and internal world, you won’t find anything inside.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

Those who care about me will forget me but, those who love me will never let go of me.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

God has entrusted me with myself.

When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that’s not there?

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

There was a spring in his carefully measured step. He opened the door and let the sunlight in, as if opening himself up, letting pent-up energy out and, letting the world enter inside- letting the light illuminate him. It was strange to see him like that, a tad amusing perhaps. He had thought it over. He had decided to welcome me with happiness and joy and to present his best self to me, whenever I decide to come.

I am proud of (knowing) who I am.

Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from... the greater inner law that has left behind its small birth, the narrow realm of personal outlook, for the sake of renewal and rebirth.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

The sky is not my limit...I am.

My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Writing is an exemplary means to make contact with the whole of the self. What ultimately makes up the self is a collation of personal knowledge derived from physical, mental, and emotional experiences. The only way to divine the self is to understand what comprises its constituent components. The self is what we do, think, and act. Writing is not merely a documenter of the actions of the self. Writing, similar to other artistic activities, is one of the fundamental activities that a self can perform.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.

A demand on self to add value is a kind of pressure that causes increase

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

Is it wrong worldly interaction (avyavahar) when someone insults you? It is (correct) worldly interaction (vyavahar). Gnani (Self-realized person) will be pleased that he has become free from karma bondage, when someone insults Him; while a non Self-realized person will fight back.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.

When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.

Love is the fruit of a sacred-soul.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout me in multitudes.I could be calm and composed all day long, but the moment it is dark, my mind riots.