Thursday 31 October 2013

Travellers - Quites

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. - Edward Abbey

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. - Oliver Goldsmith

A traveller without observation is a bird without wings. - Moslih Eddin Saadi

Every traveller has a tale to tell. - Davide C. Smith & Richrd L. Tierney

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao-Tzu

The traveller, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristics, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited. - Arnold Bennett

The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveller was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." - Daniel J. Boorstin

The world is the traveler's inn. - Afghan Proverb

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going. - Paul Theroux

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Uniqueness - Quotes

A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted. - Marianne Williamson

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. - Robert Schuller

Do not consider yourself more nor less, nor even equal to others, for people are not quantities. Each one is unique and irreplaceable. - Unknown

Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. - Unknown

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. - Eckhart Tolle

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. - Unknown

We are like snowflakes, each of us unique and exquisitely beautiful in our own way. - Unknown

Tuesday 29 October 2013

Quote Worthy


In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, relationship we are afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make. - Unknown

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - J. B. Priestley

When you are in the light, everything follows you, but when you enter into the dark, even your own shadow doesn’t follow you. - Unknown

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. - Will Durant

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it! - Unknown

When you rise in life, your friends know who you are. When you fall down, you know who are your friends. - Unknown

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. - Samuel Butler

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. - Flower A. Newhouse

Explaining the unknown by means of the unobservable is always a perilous business. - Unknown

It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. - Unknown

Monday 28 October 2013

Security - Quotes

Only the insecure strive for security. - Wayne Dyer

Our only security is our ability to change. - John Lilly

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller

The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humour and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace. - Audrey Sutherland

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. - Henry Ford

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality. - H. Stanley Judd

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Sunday 27 October 2013

Visions - Quotes

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. - Charles M. Schwab

Anyone who limits their vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.  - Unknown

Create a vision and never let the environment, or other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom. - Tony Robbins

Every man takes the limits of his field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. - W. Clement Stone

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. - Peter Marshall

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. - James Allen

If you have a vision, do something with it. - Anthony D'Angelo

It’s not what the vision is, it’s what the vision does. - Peter Senge

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. - Woodrow Wilson

Stretch your vision. See what can be, not just what is. Practice adding value to things, to people and to yourself. - David. J. Schwartz

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. - James Broughton

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. - George Eliot

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become. - James Allen

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. - Ayn Rand

Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn’t happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values. - Simon Mainwaring

Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. - Robert Collier

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action. - Warren Bennis

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. - Jonathan Swift

Vision is the blazing campfire around which people will gather. It provides light, energy, warmth and unity. - Bill Newman

Vision is the key to understanding leadership, and real leaders have never lost the childlike ability to dream dreams. - Bill Newman

Vision is the pledge of what you shall be one day, and mission is the commitment you are representative of. - Unknown

Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled. - Willie Stone

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Unknown

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world! - Joel Barker

Vision without execution is just hallucination. - Thomas Edison

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. - Charles R. Swindoll

With vision there is no room to be frightened; No reason for intimidation. It’s time to march forward! Let’s be confident and positive! - Charles R. Swindoll

Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. - John Ruskin

Saturday 26 October 2013

Seeds - Quotes

By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful. - Mel Ziegler

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future. - Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is like the seed put into the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest. - Orison Swett Marden

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource. - Robert Collier

Little seedlings never flourish in the soil they have been given, be it ever so excellent, if they are continually pulled up to see if the roots are grateful yet. - Bertha Damon

Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. - Seneca

Never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard seed germinates and roots itself. - Florence Nightingale

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. - Susan Taylor

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. - Sakyong Mipham

Friday 25 October 2013

Quote Worthy


People won’t have time for you if you are always a angry and complaining. - Stephen Hawking

The beautiful thing about setbacks is, they introduce us to our strengths. -Robin Sharma

Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. - Richard Carlson

In a discussion, focus on the issue, not the character of the other people. - Unknown

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. - Unknown

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence. - William Henry

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. - Unknown

The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. - Unknown

Perseverance is more valuable than intelligence. - Robin Sharma

Everything comes to you in the right moment. - Unknown

Thursday 24 October 2013

Trees - Quotes

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R. R. Martin

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. - Elton Trueblood 

A tree is known by its fruit. - Unknown

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. That is the secret of the tree. - Deng Ming-Dao

All theory, dear friend, is grey; but the precious tree of life is green. - Johann Wolfgang von Geothe

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. - George Ade

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. - J. Willard Marriott

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. - Sir Walter Scott

He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree. - Scottish Proverb

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. - Anton Chekhov

Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. - Eckhart Tolle

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. - Chad Sugg

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. - John Lyly

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. - C. G. Jung 

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. - Bruce Lee 

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. - Sir Winston Churchill

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

The best time to plant a tree was forty years ago. The second best time is today. - Unknown

The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. - Lewis Duncombe

The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground. - Unknown

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. - Clarissa Pinkola

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. - Thomas Hardy

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. - Hermann Hesse

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Molière

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? - Logan Pearsall Smith

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Publilius Syrus

Wednesday 23 October 2013

15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy


A friend forwarded this to me. I don’t know who is the author.

Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy we cling on to them. Not anymore. Starting today we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change. Ready? Here we go:

1. Give up your need to always be right
There are so many of us who can't stand the idea of being wrong wanting to always be right even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain, for us and for others. Its just not worth it. Whenever you feel the urgent need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question: Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind? What difference will that make? Is your ego really that big?

2. Give up your need for control
Be willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you - situations, events, people, etc. Whether they are loved ones, co-workers, or just strangers you meet on the street just allow them to be. Allow everything and everyone to be just as they are and you will see how much better will that make you feel.
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning. - Lao Tzu

3. Give up on blame
Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don't have, for what you feel or don't feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.

4. Give up your self-defeating self-talk
Oh my. How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mind set? Don't believe everything that your mind is telling you especially if its negative and self-defeating. You are better than that.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. - Eckhart Tolle

5. Give up your limiting beliefs
About what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly!
A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind. - Elly Roselle

6. Give up complaining
Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, many things people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. Its not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking.

7. Give up the luxury of criticism
Give up your need to criticize things, events or people that are different from you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is wished by us all.

8. Give up your need to impress others
Stop trying so hard to be something that you're not just to make others like you. It doesn't work this way. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you're not, the moment you take off all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you, you will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.

9. Give up your resistance to change
Change is good. Change will help you move from A to B. Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives of those around you. Follow your bliss, embrace change don't resist it.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. - Joseph Campbell

10. Give up labels
Stop labeling those things, people or events that you don't understand as being weird or different and try opening your mind, little by little. Minds only work when open.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. - Wayne Dyer

11. Give up on your fears
Fear is just an illusion, it doesn't exist. You created it. Its all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside will fall into place.
The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

12. Give up your excuses
Send them packing and tell them they're fired. You no longer need them. A lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use. Instead of growing and working on improving ourselves and our lives, we get stuck, lying to ourselves, using all kind of excuses excuses that 99.9% of the time are not even real.

13. Give up the past
I know, I know. Its hard. Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening, but you have to take into consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have. The past you are now longing for, the past that you are now dreaming about was ignored by you when it was present. Stop deluding yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life. After all life is a journey not a destination. Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the now.

14. Give up attachment
This is a concept that, for most of us is so hard to grasp and I have to tell you that it was for me too, (it still is) but its not something impossible. You get better and better at with time and practice. The moment you detach yourself from all things, (and that doesn't mean you give up your love for them because love and attachment have nothing to do with one another, attachment comes from a place of fear, while love well, real love is pure, kind, and selfless, where there is love there can't be fear, and because of that, attachment and love cannot coexist) you become so peaceful, so tolerant, so kind, and so serene. You will get to a place where you will be able to understand all things without even trying. A state beyond words.

15. Give up living your life to other peoples expectations
Way too many people are living a life that is not theirs to live. They live their lives according to what others think is best for them, they live their lives according to what their parents think is best for them, to what their friends, their enemies and their teachers, their government and the media think is best for them. They ignore their inner voice, that inner calling. They are so busy with pleasing everybody, with living up to other peoples expectations, that they lose control over their lives. They forget what makes them happy, what they want, what they need. And eventually they forget about themselves. You have one life. This one right now. You must live it, own it, and especially don't let other peoples opinions distract you from your path.

Seeing - Quotes

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. - James Michener

Anything is easy to the man who sees … The open eye of the open mind – that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised. - Samuel Hopkins Adams

Close both eyes to see with the other eye. - Rumi

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind. - Henry Ward Beecher

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface. - Henry Ward Beecher

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naïve. - Abraham Maslow

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

Learn to see, and then you’ll know there is no end to the new worlds of our vision. - Carlos Castaneda

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come? - Sophocles

Most people think of "seeing" and "observing" directly with their senses. But for physicists, these words refer to much more indirect measurements involving a train of theoretical logic by which we can interpret what is "seen." - Lisa Randall

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see. - Ursula K. le Guin

None is so blind as he who sees too much. - Philip Moeller

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. - G. K. Chesterton

People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art. - George Perkins Marsh

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing. - August Strindberg

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect. - Mark Twain

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different. - Rudolf Arnheim

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it. - Will Rogers

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog. - Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form. - Henry Ford

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportsmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them. - John Lubbock

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. - C. S. Lewis

Where eyes are shut, nothing can be seen. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel. - Luigi Pirandello

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Quotes


A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners or ‘slaves’ of their own concepts and ideas. - Unknown

Don’t waste your words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. - Mandy Hale

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. - Joseph Campbell

Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you. - Unknown

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it. - Karol Newlin

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you. - Unknown

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently. - Bill Watterson

Everybody wants sympathy, but nobody wants people feeling sorry for them. - Beryl Pfizer

When you try to control everything you enjoy nothing. Relax, breathe, let go, and just live. - Unknown

Speed only becomes an issue after the right direction to your goal has been determined. - Unknown

Monday 21 October 2013

Questions


Try answering the following questions.

Practice makes perfect.. But nobody’s perfect... So why practice?

Since light travels faster than sound, isn’t that why some people appear bright . . . until you hear them speak? - Steven Wright

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

What do you call a sleepwalking nun? A roamin’ Catholic. - Unknown

What happens if you get scared half to death twice? - Steven Wright

Who shall decide when doctors disagree? - Alexander Pope

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? - Woody Allen 

Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic”? - Steven Wright

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

Why do banks charge you a “non-sufficient funds fee” on money they already know you don’t have? - Steven Wright

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections? - Steven Wright

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead? - Steven Wright

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle? - Steven Wright

Why doesn’t the fellow who says ‘I'm no speechmaker’ let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? - Kin Hubbard

Why is it a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your two-cents in? - Steven Wright

Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients, but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons? - Steven Wright

Why is this thus?  What is the reason of this thusness? - Artemus Ward

Saturday 19 October 2013

Self - Quotes

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler, an unknown sage – whose name is Self. In your body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. - Carlos Castaneda

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life. - Unknown

If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. - Albert Camus

If Self be predominant, the man is unsociable. -

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. - Gilbert Chesterton

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. - Michel de Montaigne

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. - John Dewey

This above all, to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

Friday 18 October 2013

Quote Worthy


The golden rule of conduct . . . is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision. - Mahatma Gandhi

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? - Blaise Pascal

Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. - Unknown

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isnt there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. - Robert Heinlein

Our wisdom, education and personal growth come from the people we meet, the paths we choose to follow and the lessons we learned along the way. - Unknown

Dont fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. - Louis E. Boone

Thursday 17 October 2013

Self - Quotes

Accepting, allowing and interacting with your life as though it is exactly as it should be, without making yourself wrong (or right) for what you discover is the way to Self-Realization. - Arial Kane

Accepting, allowing and interacting with your life as though it is exactly as it should be, without making yourself wrong (or right) for what you discover is it the way to Self-Realization. - Arial Kane

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life’s greatest tests alone. - Unknown

Dont sell yourself short. Conquer the crime of self-depreciation. Concentrate on your assets. Youre better than you think you are. - David. J. Schwartz

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control. - Samuel Smiles

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. - Arnold Bennett

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a mans self-respect is a sin. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If we fall, we dont need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. - Sharon Salzberg

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. - John J. McCloy

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. - Maxwell Maltz

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. - Richard Wright

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. - Theodore Parker

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. - Demosthenes

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. - Berthold Auerbach

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, "It's no use – I can't do it." - Maxwell Maltz

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. - Lord Chesterfield

Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. - Maxwell Maltz

Relentless, repetitive self-talk is what changes our self-image. - Denis Waitley

Respect for people helped build good self-esteem in them. - Unknown

Self-acceptance leads to success, not the other way around. - Deepak Chopra

Self-actualising people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. - Abraham Maslow

Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others. - Christopher Germer

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Unknown

Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you dont control what you think, you cant control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. - Napoleon Hill

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect todays actions to tomorrows results. Theres a season for sowing, a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. - Gary Ryan Blair

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing, a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. - Gary Ryan Blair

Self-discipline is the ability to delay gratification for the sake of your future. - Unknown

Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you do not talk back. - Unknown

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential more than all external limitations put together. - Brain Tracy

Self-esteem is an attitude a person has towards himself. It is based on the sum of self-respect, self-confidence, and self-responsibility. - Unknown

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. - Maxwell Maltz

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-motivation is essential for individual growth. - Ram Mohan

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. - G. I. Gurdjief

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. Self-pity more than anything interferes with positive actions in moving forwards with our lives. - Unknown

Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world. - Helen Keller

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. - Samuel Butler

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward. - Patricia Sampson

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. - Denis Waitley

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. - John Herschel

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. - W. Clement Stone

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy. - Wayne Dyer

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment. - H. Ross Perot

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. - William J. H. Boetcker

The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behaviour. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behaviour. - Maxwell Maltz

The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline. - Walter Kiechel III

The quickest way to acquire self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. - Unknown

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that. - Paul Gauguin

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. - Sri Ramana Maharshi

The self-reliant person never has a need to blame others for his failures. He corrects himself where necessary and moves on. - Unknown

There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others’ criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults. - Magdeleine Sable

There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. - George Matthew Adams

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley

We don't have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth ... Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay ... But don't reject yourself, and don't give so much power to other people's rejection of you. It isn't necessary. - Melody Beattie

Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. - G. I. Gurdjieff

Self-respect

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. - Scott Hamilton

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth. - Lyanla Vanzant

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. - Clint Eastwood

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it. - Whitney Griswold

The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search. - Dr Nathaniel Branden

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. - Joan Didion

Self-esteem

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. - Martin Luther King

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. - Sam Walton

People who project negativity typically have low self-esteem. They feel badly about themselves, and their negativity is simply a reflection of those feelings. - Hendrie Weisinger

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. - Louise Hart

Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry. - Stephanie Martson

Your self-esteem won’t come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you. - Stacy London

Self-confidence

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open – to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas. - Jack Welch

If men are lacking in self-confidence, it is generally from an over-estimate of the difficulties before them, or from an under-estimate of their ability to overcome the obstacles in their way. Many noble and talented men and women fail in their lifework by an under-estimate of their possibilities. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself. - Robert Anthony

Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered – just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better. - Barrie Davenport

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. - Arthur Ashe

Self-confidence cannot be totally destroyed, for it is an inbuilt ingredient of our growth and evolution. What happens is that self-confidence is suppressed by the conditioning of the mind by external forces. A negative syndrome is formed. We can overcome this syndrome by taking a strong, positive view of life. - P. C. Ganesan

Self-confidence is a cure-all that can relieve worry and eliminate fear, the two things that often stand in our way while striving for success. Unfortunately, to gain confidence, you must attain a state of denial by suspending reality. You must make yourself believe what you suspect is not so. To gain this level of self-confidence, you need to be willing to attempt that which common sense tells you not to do. - Aaron R. Fodiman

Self-confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself? - Unknown

The power of self-confidence is derived from having faith in your own ability to create and capture that which you want to achieve. It is a self-confident hunter who will pursue an animal many times bigger and stronger than himself. Likewise, in the world we live in today, no obstacle is too large to overcome, if we have the faith in ourselves to do it. - Aaron R. Fodiman

Total self-confidence is built through positive expectations. You can build positive expectations by knowing that you have the power within to overcome any obstacle that lies ahead. So many people have a magnetic attraction to the past. They save mementos, clippings, old letters, and trivia. There is nothing wrong with this, but if you want to succeed, your mind must focus on where you are going, not on where you have been. Instead of saving mementos, clippings, old letters, and trivia from the past, it would be more productive to make a scrapbook with pictures of where you want to go and what you want to be in the future. - Robert Anthony

Who has self-confidence will lead the rest. - Horace

Self-love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life. - Andrew Matthews

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else? - Shailene Woodley

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them. - Bell hooks

If you’re not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have. - Tyrese Gibson

My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another. - Shakti Gawain

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself. - Tyra Banks

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Self-love is the source of all our other loves. - Pierre Corneille

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. - Thomas Aquinasf