Self Quotes - Page 43

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.

Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.

Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth.

In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.

He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

Your only purpose is to be yourself, otherwise you deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.