754 Quotes About Self-development

Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true nature and living in harmony with the universe in an ever ascending order.

You are what you believe as expressed by what you do

Most books are useful only in initiating, or maintaining, the rewarding habit of reading.

Choosing to buy a particular book over others only or mainly because it is the cheapest is excusable only if you are learning to read.

Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon what a person perceives. Essayistic writing is an osmotic process wherein a person intuitively absorbs information and ideas, allows inchoate thoughts to gestate in the unconscious mind, and then consciously places the emergent strands of language and logic into an orderly and expressive format.

A relationship is very likely to initially make us pretend we are someone we are not; a friendship, to eventually make us pretend we are still someone we used to be.

Even most of those who really never have time to read a book usually have more than enough time to listen to one.

Those who read only books that only entertain them have no significant advantage over those who can but do not read.

You simply can’t fit a gallon of desires into a quart container. And yet we continually try to do just that. What we need is a different approach. A bigger bottle would also help.