Self Quotes - Page 302

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard

‎When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

Look into a mirror, make eye contact with yourself, and say "I love me" as many times as possible during the day.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

God…is the center of all selves.

I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.

Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers

If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail

See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement

People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.