Quotes About Self

Thinking too much of happiness is suffering" the Dalai lama said " Anxiety, depression, resentment, fear – these become much worse with too much attention to the self. The mantra me, me, me is not so good

in fact the only thing that really matters is inner transformation.

lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness, a weak mind that had to be overcome.

The stress isn't coming from 'out there.' Mainly it is coming from our mind.

Apart from concept," he confirmed, "there is no self. It is just an idea. A notion. A thing that comes and goes. A story we tell ourselves about our experience of reality that's changing the whole time, sometimes up, sometimes down.

Buddhism is about understanding our own true nature. What and who we really are.

the act of imagining how an ideal self might be is the start of its manifestation.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

As time goes on, she falls further behind in terms of social skills and achievements. As she gets older and her body continues to grow, she is placed in an ever more frightening position with increasing social expectations. Instead of allowing a complex, rich, and confident identity to emerge, she is left with a mostly unconscious wounded self and a childlike, need-driven personality.

The hopeful self serves as a lifesaving antidote to the bitter and envious wounded self, which often becomes committed to destroying the rejecting aspects of the parents or other adults in positions of authority.

If any human beings find themselves in hell, they will have no one but themselves to blame. If any find themselves in heaven, they will have no one but the Lord to praise.

They love me for what I'm not. They hate me for what I am.

Bit lucky there" says Don. "Thought God might be smiling on you." "I don't believe in luck," you tell Don. "And I don't believe in God." "So what do you believe in then?" asks Don Revie. "Me," you tell him "Brian Howard Clough.

Whatever people say you are, that is what you're not.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

Intentional actions, repeated over and over, become habits. Habitual ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and reacting construct and compose my sense of of self: the Kind of person I am. The kind of person I am does not fully determine what occurs to me but strongly affects what happens and how I respond to it.

El yo presente "es" y el yo anterior "fue", y, en verdad, lo que "fue" no es idéntico a lo que "es". El lamento y la culpa son el resultado de equiparar el yo presente que "es" con el yo anterior que "era", pero en realidad ya no es; ambos no son iguales.

our most problematic dualism is not life fearing death but a fragile sense-of-self dreading its own groundlessness, according to Buddhism. By accepting and yielding to that groundlessness, I can discover that I have always been grounded in Indra's Net, not as a self-enclosed being but as one manifestation of a web of relationships which encompasses everything.

What good is freedom, Mrs. Helm, if you never do anything unusual or odd? That's what freedom means—doing whatever you need to do so long as nobody else is hurt by it. That's what you were talking about before, doing things that conflict with your sense of yourself in other rooms of your mind. You have to be able to do that or you're not really alive.

We don't fear physical closeness because we fear proximity itself. Most of us earnestly want physical contact with those who love us. Rather we fear what we will feel when we get too close. The real fear, then, is of ourselves. This fear is not something to rebuke ourselves for. It is our deepest vulnerability, the very quality that makes us most lovable.

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.