Self Quotes - Page 23

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Why not start figuring out ways to change the way we treat each other? The way we talk to each other, the way we talk about each other. To love each other. You know it starts off with self-love. We have to love ourselves before we can love anybody else.And the media from day one, from when you were little ass kids, they teach you not to love yourself. They take something out of you and they try to sell it back to you... Something that you’ve been fighting for your entire life that’s taken from you as a child. That you always had inside of you. That’s self-love.That's why I love you so much, cause as everybody knows, I love me so much.The greatest gift you have is your now…you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow and the past is the past.

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

God hates those who praise themselves.

Always remember it's never about the other, the whole effort is to find your true self 'through' the other. In fact whenever your focus shifts from YOU to the other, there is bondage which will result in pain and anguish. The other is just a medium through which you can reach your interiority. Never be obsessed for them, for that would lead to a self invited hell.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and from what the human most irreducibly is that it is a question of starting off again. From the human as it objectively is before it starts to construct a language and a thinking which help to distance it from its beginning, from its prematureness without thinking it in the totality of its being.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

Every man shall bear his own burden.

We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Let your light shine brightly.

True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is ‘tested’ samadhi.

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

Man only need to discover his world.

Self discipline is the mother of success

Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.

I ached with loss that I’d never allowed myself to feel. As if I was leaving something important behind. And that something was me.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

Hard work does not go unnoticed,and someday the rewards will follow

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

Don't play the victim role, empower yourself instead. Place yourself and others around you in a position to win.

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

I to myself am dearer than a friend.

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth

The self is a subjective entity created by our thoughts and deeds. All sense of happiness and emotional wellbeing turns upon how a person organizes their stream of consciousness into a creation and development of a positive or negative self-image.

It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference.

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

A false image is, of course, a work of art, an idol. And a lie. A narcissist identifies with this image, not his true inner self. So, all he cares about is his image, not what kind of person he really is. Indeed, the latter has no real existence in his world.In identifying with his image, he's identifying with an ephemeral figment that has but virtual reality, a purely immanent existence as a reflection in the attention shone on him by others. No attention, no image. No image, no self!

Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you a storm! The voyage of your life is on too placid an ocean…

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.

‪#‎TRUTH‬ ‪#‎BEREAL‬We must be ruthlessly honest with and about Self..Self Assessments are often inflated or deflated or just imaginary..

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

There are things you should never give up on like your convictions and ambitions but most importantly…you should never give up on you. Keep making those sacrifices, keep running that race, keep advancing beyond your struggles to your eventual goal. You will deeply value your triumphs, if they’re not handed to you. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is worth having or attaining without labor and toil. So when you’re in your darkest hour and the road seems endless, no matter what, never ever give up on you…because only you will see you through. ~Jason Versey

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. There are other advantages, more difficult to speak of, things which ancient sources only hint at and which I myself only understood after the fact.

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

What about you and me, Adina?” Duff said, sidling up to her by the railing. “I know I screwed up. But do you think we could start over?”Adina thought about everything that had happened. Part of her wanted to kiss Duff McAvoy, the tortured British trust-fund-runaway-turned-pirate-of-necessity who loved rock ‘n’ roll and mouthy-but-vulnerable bass-playing girls from New Hampshire. But he didn’t exist. Not really. He was a creature of TV and her imagination, a guy she’d invented as much as he’d invented himself. And this was what she suddenly understood about her mother: how with each man, each husband, she was really trying to fill in the sketchy parts of herself and become somebody she could finally love. It was hard to live in the messiness and easier to believe in the dream. And in that moment, Adina knew she was not her mother after all. She would make mistakes, but they wouldn’t be the same mistakes. Starting now.“Sorry,” she said, heading for the bow, where a spot of sun looked inviting. ”Oh, also, about that blog? Just so you know, my dads know a lot of gay lawyers. Bitches will take your ass down if you try to publish that. Peace out.

Be your sacred-self.

Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you.