Self Quotes
The only real estate I will ever truly own is the space inside my head and heart. And what I build there is up to me.
The more I dare to play the game of life, the more the possibility to win.
Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality.
To commune with your heart and soul, be willing to go out of your mind.
As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.
By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.
Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey.
If you got a dream, you are good to go. The only extra luggage you will need is self-belief and perseverance.
Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.
The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician … and we were all born to be magicians.
At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.
We can say that wisdom causes us to know, while understanding enables us to act.
His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.
In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus.
when you hate others, you hate yourself.when you hate yourself, you hate others.when you love others, you love yourself.when you love yourself, you love others.there is no separation.
Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.
We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience.
We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.
With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.
Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.
When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.
Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your knees if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!
Why does it matter what I own, how I look, what I wear, if I don't help out a friend in need, if I've forgotten to love and care.
If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
