Self Quotes - Page 19

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

you can tell who you are the way people respond to you.

The only way you can reach your full potential is if you open up and allow your self to be exposed to how you really feel.

Self-care is possessing enough self-awareness to invoke repeated patterns of being, that harmoniously correct the behaviors of over-functioning for others while under-functioning for yourself.

YOU ARE NOT HERE TO LISTEN TO YOURSELF,
YOU ARE HERE TO LISTEN TO YOUR SOUL.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

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.

One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one's innermost self. Understanding this, I had freed myself from nostalgia, and having done so, what remained was to free myself from the prospect of the future.

("The Tower")

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Though the 'Thou' is not an 'It', it is also not "another 'I'". He who treats a person as "another 'I'" does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such a relation, despite the warmest "personal" feeling is really 'I'-'It'.

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

The truth remains itself, even the human minds cannot see it.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.