151 quotes
“The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
— Thomas a Kempis
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is remaining ignorant about our own simplicity”
— Pema Chodron
“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are. Seeing with peaceful eyes changes everything.”
— Anais Nin
“To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes you will be fine”
— Sadhguru
“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”
— Dogen Zenji
“Healing begins where the wound was made and it begins with gentleness toward ourselves”
— Alice Walker
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Thoreau
“Finding yourself is not really how it works you are not a ten-dollar bill in last winters coat pocket you are also not lost your true self is right here buried under cultural conditioning”
— Emily McDowell
“A friend is as it were a second self”
— Cicero
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
— Edmund Hillary
“You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first that is the real healing work”
— Rupi Kaur
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
“I consider knowing myself to be the most important.”
— Socrates
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
— Nelson Mandela
“I become what I think.”
— Descartes
“We forfeit three quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
— Buddha
“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself the invisible inevitable battles inside all of us that is where it is at”
— Jesse Owens
“Be yourself because everyone else is already taken. Authentic creativity flows from authenticity.”
“I realized that I can change myself for the better.”
— Carlos Castaneda
— Henry David Thoreau
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
“I know myself”
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
— Taylor Swift
“If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete and cannot truly extend to others”
— Jack Kornfield
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that we eventually are unable to recognize ourselves.”
— La Rochefoucauld
“Wherever you go there you are”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self”
— May Sarton
“Know thyself.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We say we waste time but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”
— Alice Bloch
“The greatest family thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself while being part of something larger.”
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being”
— Hafiz
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
— Bo Bennett
“Humans are beings who create themselves.”
— Charles de Gaulle
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle
“The only journey is the one within”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
— Walt Whitman
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“You are the universe experiencing itself”
— Alan Watts
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself”
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
— Booker T. Washington
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
“We lose ourselves in what we read only to return to ourselves, transformed.”
— Judith Butler
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are but the cure is kindness toward yourself”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“It is more difficult to want to know myself than not to know myself.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“I am that I am.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
— Warren Buffett
“Defeat myself today.”
— Dante
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
— Christian D. Larson
“The only journey is the one within.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Realizing oneself is true learning.”
“The ultimate goal of learning is to know oneself.”
— Plato
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool especially about time”
— Richard Feynman
“No need to hurry no need to sparkle no need to be anybody but oneself and wonder at the simple miracle of being”
— Virginia Woolf
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”
“You are the universe experiencing itself.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
— Epictetus
— Dogen
“You do not have to be a genius you just have to be yourself”
— Austin Kleon
“I am not destroying myself, I am creating myself.”
“Life is not about finding yourself life is about creating yourself”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you”
— Laozi
“Everything we learn is for ourselves.”
“Much of your pain is self-chosen it is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself.”
— Bell Hooks
“Retire into yourself for the rational principle that rules has this nature: to be content with itself”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell
“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner but faith sets you free to be yourself”
— Lao Tzu
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
“Life is about discovering yourself. The more I know what I want, the more I know who I am.”
— James Michener
“Peace in oneself peace in the world.”
“Its like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head always all the time that story makes you what you are so make your story one of kindness”
— Patrick Rothfuss
“We are what our thoughts have made us.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am I am I am”
— Sylvia Plath
“Happiness is an inner job. You do not need anyone or anything to make you happy.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourself”
“A person grows according to how they understand themselves.”
— Carl Rogers
“Scholarship is above all about knowing oneself.”
“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”
— Carl Jung
“What cannot be communicated to the mother cannot be communicated to the self”
— John Bowlby
“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are”
“A person becomes what they think about.”
— James Allen
“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”
“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
— Tom Bradley
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself”
— Andy Warhol
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”
— Thomas Merton
“To know others, first know yourself.”
— Confucius
“Happiness is not something that someone can give us or something we find outside of ourselves. It emerges from within.”
“When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with yourself”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself”
— Coco Chanel
“The healing that is hardest to find is the healing that lives within us”
— Yung Pueblo
“When you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with yourself when you lose touch with yourself you lose yourself in the world”
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone”
— Schopenhauer
“Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others rather it means never living apart from oneself”
— Parker Palmer
“Life isnt about finding yourself life is about creating yourself”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions but when you give with wonder you give of yourself”
“Man must transcend himself.”
— Nietzsche
“I got my start by giving myself a start and I did not let failure stop me from starting again”
— Madam C.J. Walker
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.”
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he himself does”
— Franz Kafka
“I celebrate myself and sing myself”
“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery not over nature but of ourselves”
— Rachel Carson
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change”
“First keep the peace within yourself then you can also bring peace to others.”
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.”
— Paul Tillich
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