Self Quotes - Page 60

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love.

Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

People will stare. Make it worth their while.

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion and it's not always the fun part of it.

The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.