- “I’ve decided that I’m not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I’m going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.” ― Zoe Sugg
- “We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.” ― Vivian Amis, I Am: The Key to Manifesting
- “Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.” ― Vivian Amis, I Am: The Key to Manifesting
- “the clock will not turn to left. it means you can’t go back to the past. what you have to do now is bless your life. you’ve tried so hard to become who you are right now. you did a good job. forget all of your mistake in past and move forward. love and care your self in this life as well” ― Nunki Artura
- “Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.” ― Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
- “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” ― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within
- “When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.” ― Vivian Amis, I AM – The Key to Manifesting
- “True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.” ― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
- “My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.” ― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
- “Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a tree. The entire cosmos is expressing itself through your being.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” ― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within
- “Doffing the ego’ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.” ― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
- “Contemplative practices have a way of gracefully gerrymandering the borders that once rigidly defined self and other.” ― Kyle Parton
- “The problem with introspection is that it has no end.” ― Philip K. Dick
- “Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the “emotion” you desire.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor fear to be a king.” ― Emily Dickinson
- “the worst thing,” he told me,”is bitterness, people end up sobitter.” ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
- “If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful–if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
- “When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.” ― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
- “The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal
- “Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning — already gone –thus should one regard one’s self.” ― Ikkyu
- “You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s-self is,” ― Walt Whitman
- “Pride can be friend, ego can be foe…depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
- “We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.” ― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
- “If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” ― Masaru Emoto, Secret Life of Water