Top 1200 Discovering Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I just want to show people that the best thing you could ever do for yourself is be yourself.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.

I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas' gambling interests and criminal connections.

Remember when we met? Before you left, you said you were going to make a fool of yourself over me. That's still what you're worried about. That you'll find yourself doing things you never dreamed of doing, things you laughed at in others, and you'll make a fool of yourself.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Forgive yourself for believing things about yourself that are not true. Forgive yourself for believing that you were anything other than a child of God. Then, after forgiving yourself for believing the things you were told, forgive the people who told you. Forgive them not for what they said or did. Forgive them because they did not know any better.

Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you'll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.

Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation.

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself.

To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others... love yourself and you will be loved.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

I've always been drawn to the message of 'Be yourself. Love yourself.' I need to be reminded of that all time.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.

You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

You have to be nice to people, you have to give the best of yourself every moment of your life, and you have to believe in yourself.

Just witness yourself with your human part and hold yourself with love, if you can, or at least acceptance.

The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.

People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.

If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

You have to be able to compete, put yourself out there, make yourself vulnerable, to go for something that you want.

When you see where it is you're going, yet you are unable to sacrifice yourself to set yourself free then remember that from my experience you are able to just push harder than you ever 'thought' yourself capable of. Once one being sets themselves free from the chaos and becomes the living example of freedom then surely you are indeed free to do the same.

So many years later, you watch yourself, and you're not critical of yourself anymore 'cause that's behind you.

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

When I did TV, I only did little guest parts, and it hasn't been that long. There is a kind of pressure in this job that comes from your work every day being there forever. But this is all part of the brand-new world that I'm discovering.