Top 1200 Self Knowing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

God’s love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved by God, and that we are new creations in Christ empowers us to reject self-rejection and embrace a healthy self-love. Being secure in God’s love for us, our love for Him, and our love for ourselves, prepares us to fulfill the second greatest commandment: To love our neighbor as ourselves.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for- loving the person because of all of those things... I know that now.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

Everything you want to accomplish is already within yourself so when you start to roll in self-doubt and think negative thoughts then you'll fall off. So keep visualising and keep knowing what you're destined for, it'll come to you.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such satisfaction with ourselves is not the same as contentment. Contentment is necessary, self-satisfaction is detrimental. To be content has to include knowing we are in the right place at the right time to facilitate our own growth. But to be self-satisfied means that we no longer realize the need for growth. All these aspects are important parts of our commitment and makes us into one whole being with a one-pointed direction.

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.

The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Knowing that girls are inspired to not have the burden of self-hate, even if it's a tiny way, makes me happy to no end. It gets me up in the morning and softens a lot of the blows I get.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

For acting, classes are a necessity, but for modeling it's really just knowing who you are and knowing how to sell yourself.

It's a lot easier knowing you can't do something than knowing you shouldn't.

As much as I loathe this aging thing, I'm beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That's been a good trade-off for the wrinkles.

The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Very few things in life are more fulfilling than being part of a team and knowing you're a part of something bigger than your own self-interest.

It's not about knowing the key to success, but knowing how to use it and which doors to open

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.