Quotes on Best Self

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.