Self Knowledge Quotes - Page 5

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you can’t even be yourself.
You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.
Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it’s worse than no friends at all.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Everything is music for the born musician.

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.

To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge - we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.

When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.

What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

To stand by yourself - that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

The idea of original sin-of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives-inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality. Sin is not original, it is originated-like virtue.