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