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Self Quotes
"When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt."
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"Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again."
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"Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as 'me,' instead of letting 'me' run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death."
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"But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve."
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"Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower."
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"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility."
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"We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others."
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"Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight."
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"Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!"
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"Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me."
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"First know the Self and then talk of social reformation."
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"Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd."
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"Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past."
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"It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me."
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"Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name? to respond when called.Ever wonder why?."
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"For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our brothers, for our limbs were straigth and thin and hard and strong. And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being."
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"I'm enjoying getting to know me, one lesson at a time."
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"Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won't be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!"
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"You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him."
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"I sat and reflected on the situation I had facedI needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask...But I need to know,How was this to be apart of my destiny?"
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"Never let your uniqueness be compromised."
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"If you live your life to please others, sometimes you neglect yourself. You deserve happiness. You deserve peace. You deserve love and respect. Don't get caught up and deprive the very essence of you."
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"If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with."
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"I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are."
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"We are constantly invited to be what we are."
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"Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives-the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we'd just as soon forget."
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"There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one's own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won't these faults have to be broken?"
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"Stick on your originality, yes I know few people will call you a boring person but millions will fall in love with you because of your authenticity."
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"Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward."
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"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."
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"To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks."
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"No one else can stop us from loving ourselves, just as no one else is to blame when we don't. I promise to stop blaming your for everything I don't like about myself."
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"If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His."
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"I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning."
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"I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad."If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself."He nods in understanding."And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?"I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you."
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"To grow, be humble and ask questions most of the time. When you do so, a wise and smart person sees him/herself in you and treats you with dignity. On the other hand, if you ask questions and try to learn from a shallow and fool person, s/he treats you with contempt and disrespect. Now, you know who is who..."
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"Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that."
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"Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be."
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"Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known."
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"How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?"
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"If you are courageous, people say you are boastful or "too known". You either choose to accept what they say to you and you need to accept it with its consequences. The consequence is that you will remain where you are!"
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