Self Quotes - Page 35

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

​You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

The moment you become conscious of your unconscious state, you’re instantly transformed!

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

To Avoid Self Destruction Is Not To Be Grouped Through Life By Pursuing Education Alone

Strangers are never seen through a window. When our eyes are cast upon another, we are in fact gazing into the depths of a mirror. If you truly desire to understand how you feel about yourself, just take an honest look at how you view the world around you.

Only you can change your own world. No one else.

Love is a sacred self.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.

The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation!

‪#‎STEREOTYPES‬ ‪#‎SOCIETY‬ ‪#‎COMPATIBILITY‬ ‪#‎BREAKTHROUGH‬Stereotypes?? What are they?? WE ARE SOCIETY, WE MAKE SOCIETY..WE ARE NOT MARRIED TO SOCIETY,WE LIVE IN IT!

The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure. You cannot make an object out of your subjective experience, but you know that consciousness exists, simply because you exist.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

A further, albeit more complex, possibility is that our conscious selves might suffer from characteristic uncertainty about our true values, and gather information about them from choices we make (the Jamesian: "How do I know what I like until I see what I pick").

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

Freedom begins in the mind of the individual. You'll never be able to do a particular thing if you don't navigate your thoughts positively. Complaining and neglecting to take action creates stagnation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.

Despise your weakness, not yourself.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

Only you can save yourself.

Once you die, that’s it – game over. Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

Self importance is self pride.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

You can elevate yourself to higher self by devotion to God.

I write to shed my tears.

When is bliss of the self (Samadhi) experienced? It is when one does not want anything, when all the tubers of one’s greed goes away, then the bliss of the self (Samadhi) is experienced. Give away, how much you give (your things to others), that much (happiness) will be yours !

The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural polymaths.

Self-knowledge is the greatest education.

Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are no more human than a driver is the car he is driving. You would never go to a junkyard to look for the driver would you?

True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you and any other Being in the Universe.

people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while

Gnan’ [True Knowledge, Knowledge of one’s own self], is freedom itself. It keeps one in Moksha [liberated state] and prevents [karmic] bondage.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name? to respond when called.Ever wonder why?.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.

There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join.

If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of malice. To do so would give it more substance. We remove the personal sense of ourself and the other person.

The greatest form of betrayal is self-betrayal."-Dr Renu S Persaud

My mother always told meNo monster lived beneath my bed,But she had failed to warn meIt laid on top of it instead.

I became convinced that I was being watched.Because self was still leaking everywhere, a part of me began to think it was Mizuko rather than a stranger. I hoped that there might still be a reunion. I hoped it in the shy, sly way hope comes out of the jar, the mistranslated box, last—after everything and everyone else has escaped.

Poisonous people will try to destroy you when they recognize your power this is because they fear what you might become.

Here’, I am a disciple just as you are. The one you see is not ‘Dada Bhagwan’; it is ‘A. M. Patel’, a Patidaar from the town of Bhadran. The one sitting within is ‘Dada Bhagwan’. ‘I’ myself make everyone do jai jai kar of Dada Bhagwan [sing praise of Dada Bhagwan]. Therefore, ‘I’ too am a devotee, as are you.