192 quotes
“Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.”
"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself."
— Ursula K. LeGuin
"Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice"
— Steve Jobs
"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?"
— Rainer Maria Rilke
"When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered."
— Osho
"Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him."
— Orson Welles
"I am the captain of my soul."
— Nelson Mandela
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
"... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ..."
— José Saramago
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king."
— John Milton
"And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."
— Frida Kahlo
"From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I"
— Fernando Pessoa
"To pretend is to know oneself."
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
— Eckhart Tolle
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
— e. e. cummings
"Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others."
— Confucius
"If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself."
— Bruce Lee
"I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."
— Brené Brown