Self Quotes - Page 16

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you can stay in that state for a while and come out of it without losing any of it, then the inner divine love will begin to pour through you. You will not see people as different, separate individuals. You will see your own Self in everyone around you. Then the flow of love from within you will be constant and unbroken.

Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

Just be yourself, the minute you start being yourself youre gonna win.

I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don't like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way.

One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Dare to think for yourself.

Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Above all things, respect yourself.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.