Quotes About Self

Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

The best thing is to invest in yourself, because it takes money to make money.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

You always have to believe in yourself and not let your confidence fade.

Confidence literally starts from yourself. You have to go look in the mirror at yourself. If you don't like what you see, you're going to give off that energy.

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.