261 Quotes About Ourselves

Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.

By taking responsibility and playing our role in imparting the gift of forgiveness and love to ourselves and to the world, we will start liberating ourselves from all pain and suffering, and gift ourselves with Peace and Spiritual Freedom.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

For, if we’re really going to give ourselves the best of ourselves, we have to be honest with the worst of ourselves.

Patience is where we realize that to rush something is to compromise it to its own destruction. Maturity is to realize that the most effective way to stop the destruction is by beginning to develop patience. And the first place that we need to do that is with ourselves.

...this study, [of rhetoric] properly conducted, leads directly to an acquaintance with ourselves; it not only traces the operations of the intellect and imagination, but discloses the lurking springs of action in the heart.

Changing our perspective can empower our understanding of others -- and ourselves!

Yes, it is possible that we do not grow up, that even as we grow old, we remain the children we always were. We remember ourselves as we were then, and we feel ourselves to be the same. We made ourselves into what we are now then, and we remain what we were, in spite of the years. We do not change for ourselves. Time makes us grow old, but we do not change.

It's not the world we should change, we should change ourselves.