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