Self Quotes
But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?
Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters
Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.
In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.
A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.
Conflict is just another chance for agreement.
True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.
It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.
Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.
Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.
While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.
Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.
She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.
In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.
Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.
It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.
Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.
It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)
I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?
I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.
Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.
There is a self-love solution for every challenge.
You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.