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