Quotes on About Yourself

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

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.