Self Knowledge Quotes - Page 3

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?

If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.

The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.

Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth!

I never really grew up until I had kids.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.