Self Being Quotes

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

Do you know how powerful you are?

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.