Self Quotes - Page 40

Superior people never make long visits.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

Vision is the culmination of thought.

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you.

The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God. Basically, the human and the God are two sides of the same coin. Or to be more specific, the human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.

I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

Self is for sacrifice and service.

A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.

You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.

My secret to happiness? Keep sadness to yourself

All men love themselves.

There will be those who love you for your hair and those who love the beauty of your mind and those who adore the warmth of your heart. but there will be those who will leave you for not conforming to their type of hair, mind and heart. And there will be those who will live/die to see your bad hair days, derailed mind, and broken heart. but what matters most is Who You Are

God creates the animals man creates himself.

Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

We're all in this together ... alone.

They have rights who dare defend them.

When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question.

All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as Phi—known as the Golden Ratio or Golden Mean—was used in the constructions of their sculptures and architecture.

Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

I refuse to GROW UP............................Grow up to be what the World expects me to be..

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.

When You Are Just You,People Will Always Bring Themselves.

We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.

If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?

There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-self], right?

To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.

A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!

If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means “Our Own Self” did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.

When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection, and a unity that allows us to see beyond the various forms, as well as the various ways that someone may act out when they have forgotten their connection and their formless nature. If you look at another in this light, you will see a Being that is just like you, looking back at you

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.

She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya HaiWhat should I ask the sages about my origin:I am always wanting to know my goal.

How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.

My job as a coach isn't to 'fix' people it is to 'break' them and empower them to connect to their spirit and trust that they will be re-built into a new improved version given a little time and patience.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

The only thing you really have to prove is yourself.

But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream.

Build your self in the Holy Faith.

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

I am what I am so take me as I am!

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...

We guarantee rude emptiness for ourselves; later in life, when we treat children as - "empty buckets", today.

But I will confess 
that I began as an astronomer—a liking
for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things,
a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit—
and that my longing for you has not taken me
very far from that original desire
to inscribe a comet’s orbit around the walls
of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars.

Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know with ALL of your heart that you will. You will succeed in spite of any obstacles that may try to hinder you! There’s so much power in having a positive attitude, positive mindset, and positive outlook.

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us!