Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.
Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?
There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.
Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.
The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.
Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. ... When we see people acting in an abusive, arrogant, or demeaning manner toward others, their behavior almost always is a symptom of their lack of self-esteem. They need to put someone else down to feel good about themselves.
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it.
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.
Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.
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