Quotes About Self

The difference between a "winner" and a "whiner" is the sound of the "I." ANONYMOUS

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you are not happy in one place, chances are you won\'t be happy anyplace.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

Wir schaffen unsere eigene Welt – und was wir erfahren ist nicht Zufall. Dinge werden zu uns durch unsere Veranlagung hervorgebracht, - die Welt ist so wie wir sind." STRAHLUNGEN (1949). 47.

Die Menschen besitzen alle Anlagen zum glücklichen Leben; sie machen aber keinen Gebrauch davon." GESAMT WERKE. Band 2

Each individual must know if freedom is more important to them—know whether they value how they are more than that they are.14

Strano sapersi perduti tutti i giorni e non dirsi mai addio

And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.

The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, and to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented, and the characteristic issue, the crucial concern, is whether it will be credited or discredited.

though you can't actually run away from yourself, if you are to change you must transcend this ever present background, the influences of which have already affected your state of mind.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlling their actions and their speech, we are not aware of this being so. Only one of them is myself, the dreamer. In him I act and speak immediately, while I may be awaiting eagerly and anxiously what another one will reply

Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.

There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it was a kind of taking. You take from the audience, you take from yourself.

Chip recons that he is charming as hell, and who am I to poke holes in his theory. That means that sometimes lies leave his mouth dressed like truth. He just can't help it.

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.

It seemed too complicated, as if each one of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I assumed, was not.    

You are the creator of your own experience, and no one else has power within your experience. And that is true for everyone.

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.

You cannot be other than selfish, for you cannot observe, perceive, or be other than from your perspective of self. All points of Consciousness, even one-celled organisms, perceive. And they do so from the ever-changing selfish perspective that they currently hold.

Most religions offer tremendous patterns of "pushing against" as they scrutinize human behavior looking for evidence of wrongdoing and sin. And often that perceived wrongdoing is pointed toward sexual behavior. Every thought that devalues self, even if it is spoken from a religious platform, causes separation between the human physical self and the Non-Physical Inner Being. And that is, in fact, what confusion is.

Often you are pulled this way and that in an attempt to please another, only to discover that no matter how hard you try, you cannot consistently move in any pleasing direction, and so, you not only do not please them, but you also do not please yourself. And because you are being pulled in so many different directions, your path to where you want to be usually gets lost in the process.