Quotes About Self

Happiness can only be generated through self given joy. And joy given by your loved ones.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

The love we seek is inside ourselves. When we project that love onto others, it comes back to us.

Don't just exist... live, being happy in life is simple, Focus on you, making yourself happy, love what you do and do what you love.

Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because you're empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full.

Forgive the past, forgive yourself, forgive your partner, and love the present moment for what its worth. There are plenty of beautiful things to love right now; you just have to want to see them.

When you truly lose yourself in something you love, you will eventually find yourself there too.

Patience with family is love, Patience with others is respect. Patience with self is confidence and Patience with GOD is faith.

He who does not love at least himself breathes without feeling the breath of the heart.

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.

If you're going to survive in this world, here's what you need to know: you are who you are, not what people think you are.

Mindfulness meditation teaches you to recognise memories and damaging thoughts as they arise. It reminds you that they are memories. They are like propaganda, they are not real. They are not you. You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.

now is the future that you promised yourself last year, last month, last week. Now is the only moment you'll ever really have. Mindfulness is about waking up to this.

For maybe the first time in years, you're noticing in real time how the mind creates tension in the body. Soon you'll notice that the body also creates tension in the mind in a self-sustaining loop.

It's hell when the person you know you are isn't the person people see when they look at you.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

Déjà, je ne suis plus qu'une fine pellicule recouvrant un amoncellement de souvenirs. Je n'en peux plus. Qu'adviendra-t-il de mois si cette peau venait à se rompre ?

Depersonalization—Detachment from one's self, e.g., a sense of looking at one's self as if one is an outsider.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.