The Self Quotes

Transform your anger into energy to effectuate positive change.

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your needs if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!

Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance

Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.

Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.

Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment & through mindfulness, we can shape our reaction right away.

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

Your feelings have a natural shelf life.

Feelings Are the Compass to Your Soul.

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly.

Man can transform his life, when he renewed his thinking.

Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness.

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

Seldom do we think about how seldom we think.

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

In the end, we all have our different levels of moral values.

When you look down the length of your chain and see it is made mostly of weak links it is time to pull out the bolt cutters.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

The only crime is pride.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.

When we let the expectations of others or own unreasonable self-expectations rule, we silence the power of our Legacies.

just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art

...I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

For the first time maybe ever, it didn't matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it.

Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.

Those beautiful, green-blue eyes that change colour like they're bewitched, and look deep into my soul, making me see my true self. Right now, I don't like what I see.” -Nik Driver

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon

Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling.

If you read, you will have great wisdom for great life.

the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.

I love to challenge myself to greater heights.

To achieve greatness it simply starts with self-belief.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!

Life is a beautiful dream to be cherished, as long as it lasts.

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

Just be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.