Self Quotes - Page 89

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

Love yourself. Nobody's perfect. I mean, come on, nobody is perfect. Not you, not your mom, even the people on TV - nobody is perfect, and there's always something that nobody likes, but you know, you just accept that. Your imperfections make you beautiful. It's those things you find you don't like that someone else finds very special and very unique about you.

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

You've got to be happy in your own skin.

We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

The living moment is everything.