self-realization

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
0551a65	I am who I am; no more, no less.	inspirational self-awareness self-realization	Terry Goodkind
42f3830	Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.	awakening awareness enlightenment giving inspirational know-thyself self-realization service spiritual wisdom-quotes	Ramana Maharshi
fc47f32	I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.	existentialism humble humility self-loathing self-realization	Hermann Hesse
dbc3ebd	Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?	love motivational self-empowerment self-esteem self-realization spiritual truth inspirational	Marianne Williamson
9f5f37d	He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.	ancient ancient-china ancient-chinese body chinese conquers fighting inspirational philosophical philosophy proverb self-improvement self-realization training warrior	Confucius
673880b	I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing	self-realization	Jonathan Tropper
c9df7d0	Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone	enlightenment meditation narcissism self-absorption self-improvement self-realization	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4be3bc9	Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.	goodness people self-realization	L.M. Montgomery
ea12e72	The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.	independence independent-thought self-awareness self-awareness-honesty-self self-realization	Markus Zusak
357d422	"People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence."	happiness human-nature sadness self-realization	Isabel Allende
8734461	Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.	scrutinize self-awareness self-realization	Lorrie Moore
e671548	She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people.	earth-mother empowerment identity self-realization	Robin McKinley
34605e4	"Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O'Donohue points to this when he says that "behind the facade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening."	being-yourself celtic-spirituality divine-feminine divine-inspiration divine-self feminine ground-reality groundedness john-o-donohue rest sacred-teachings sacred-wisdom sacredness sacredness-of-life self-awareness self-realization soul	Meghan Don
25d1825	I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.	myself self-awareness self-realization	Elizabeth Gilbert
4d4f0aa	"In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger society as well as from any single-sub-society--black or gay--I felt I didn't have to try so hard. To be accepted. To look femme. To be straight. To look straight. To be proper. To look "nice". To be liked. To be loved. To be approved. What I didn't realize was how much harder I had to try merely to stay alive, or rather, to stay human. How much stronger a person I became in that trying."	queerness self-realization sexuality	Audre Lorde
d5ff665	The headlights of parked cars shone through the rain, and the sidewalks extended, empty, into the darkness. Underground, the sewers surged like rivers, and a few blocks away, sirens blared. He was no longer aware of his heart or thoughts, only the image of a sunken face staring up from a well, the paleness rising through the water like polished bone. A ringed hand reached toward it, but as the fingers approached, the face would sink away, its eyes opening, closing, and the droplets of red falling like leaves. He was a child running through an autumn cemetery, leaping over cast iron fences, the rain bleeding into the tombstones and the roofs of the mausoleums, his legs following the wings of a crow, flapping to the north. A hedge of withered roses stood between him and his childhood house. He tripped and grazed his cheek on a manhole, his red blooming in the water. The sun set behind the hill; the house turned black--abandoned and derelict--and Chris knew he had to keep running, ahead, into the unknown.	coming-of-age identity literary-fiction literature self-realization	Cory Ingram
6b7b7ed	Bridges are meant to connect They're meant to defy drops and distances, but occasionally we lose our way.... we fall off, we drive off, we consider jumping. -Razor aka. Thomas Turner pg. 410	journey self-realization	Katie McGarry
018e9b3	Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god--he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin's death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I've been running like Dad--like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong? There's only one way to find out.	pain self-discovery self-improvement self-realization strength suffering	Matthew Woodring Stover
affe24a	The self is...a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.	self-realization	Rebecca Solnit
505ac4f	She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people's lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in life is out of reach. You also have the time to tell yourself that you don't want it at all, though whether you can ever be completely convinced is something else.	life lost self-awareness self-realization struggle	Barbara Delinsky
1d29777	Und es gibt Menschen, die behaupten, Gott hatte das gesamte Universum erschaffen, um sich selbst sehen zu konnen. So wie wir immer unter Menschen gehen, weil wir uns uber andere Menschen definieren. Weil wir nur durch die Art, wie sie sind, erkennen konnen, wie wir sind.	self-realization	Benjamin Lebert
f432505	But when he sat on the bed beside me, then leaned over and kissed my forehead, my cheek, my lips, his hand pressed to my rib cage, the other stroking my hair back, it was like I was an empty well and didn't know it until just now when he uncovered me and it started to rain.	knowing love self-awareness self-realization	Andre Dubus III
51a0ae4	And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn't just the inverse of who I am. It's an infintely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life between the extremes of me and Jason2.	self-realization	Blake Crouch

I am who I am; no more, no less.

inspirational self-awareness self-realization

Terry Goodkind

42f3830

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

awakening awareness enlightenment giving inspirational know-thyself self-realization service spiritual wisdom-quotes

Ramana Maharshi

fc47f32

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

existentialism humble humility self-loathing self-realization

Hermann Hesse

dbc3ebd

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

love motivational self-empowerment self-esteem self-realization spiritual truth inspirational

Marianne Williamson

9f5f37d

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

ancient ancient-china ancient-chinese body chinese conquers fighting inspirational philosophical philosophy proverb self-improvement self-realization training warrior

Confucius

673880b

I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing

self-realization

Jonathan Tropper

c9df7d0

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

enlightenment meditation narcissism self-absorption self-improvement self-realization

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4be3bc9

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

goodness people self-realization

L.M. Montgomery

ea12e72

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

independence independent-thought self-awareness self-awareness-honesty-self self-realization

Markus Zusak

357d422

"People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence."

happiness human-nature sadness self-realization

Isabel Allende

8734461

Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.

scrutinize self-awareness self-realization

Lorrie Moore

e671548

She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people.

earth-mother empowerment identity self-realization

Robin McKinley

34605e4

"Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O'Donohue points to this when he says that "behind the facade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening."

being-yourself celtic-spirituality divine-feminine divine-inspiration divine-self feminine ground-reality groundedness john-o-donohue rest sacred-teachings sacred-wisdom sacredness sacredness-of-life self-awareness self-realization soul

Meghan Don

25d1825

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

myself self-awareness self-realization

Elizabeth Gilbert

4d4f0aa

"In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger society as well as from any single-sub-society--black or gay--I felt I didn't have to try so hard. To be accepted. To look femme. To be straight. To look straight. To be proper. To look "nice". To be liked. To be loved. To be approved. What I didn't realize was how much harder I had to try merely to stay alive, or rather, to stay human. How much stronger a person I became in that trying."

queerness self-realization sexuality

Audre Lorde

d5ff665

The headlights of parked cars shone through the rain, and the sidewalks extended, empty, into the darkness. Underground, the sewers surged like rivers, and a few blocks away, sirens blared. He was no longer aware of his heart or thoughts, only the image of a sunken face staring up from a well, the paleness rising through the water like polished bone. A ringed hand reached toward it, but as the fingers approached, the face would sink away, its eyes opening, closing, and the droplets of red falling like leaves. He was a child running through an autumn cemetery, leaping over cast iron fences, the rain bleeding into the tombstones and the roofs of the mausoleums, his legs following the wings of a crow, flapping to the north. A hedge of withered roses stood between him and his childhood house. He tripped and grazed his cheek on a manhole, his red blooming in the water. The sun set behind the hill; the house turned black--abandoned and derelict--and Chris knew he had to keep running, ahead, into the unknown.

coming-of-age identity literary-fiction literature self-realization

Cory Ingram

6b7b7ed

Bridges are meant to connect They're meant to defy drops and distances, but occasionally we lose our way.... we fall off, we drive off, we consider jumping. -Razor aka. Thomas Turner pg. 410

journey self-realization

Katie McGarry

018e9b3

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god--he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin's death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I've been running like Dad--like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong? There's only one way to find out.

pain self-discovery self-improvement self-realization strength suffering

Matthew Woodring Stover

affe24a

The self is...a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.

self-realization

Rebecca Solnit

505ac4f

She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people's lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in life is out of reach. You also have the time to tell yourself that you don't want it at all, though whether you can ever be completely convinced is something else.

life lost self-awareness self-realization struggle

Barbara Delinsky

1d29777

Und es gibt Menschen, die behaupten, Gott hatte das gesamte Universum erschaffen, um sich selbst sehen zu konnen. So wie wir immer unter Menschen gehen, weil wir uns uber andere Menschen definieren. Weil wir nur durch die Art, wie sie sind, erkennen konnen, wie wir sind.

self-realization

Benjamin Lebert

f432505

But when he sat on the bed beside me, then leaned over and kissed my forehead, my cheek, my lips, his hand pressed to my rib cage, the other stroking my hair back, it was like I was an empty well and didn't know it until just now when he uncovered me and it started to rain.

knowing love self-awareness self-realization

Andre Dubus III

51a0ae4

And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn't just the inverse of who I am. It's an infintely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life between the extremes of me and Jason2.

self-realization

Blake Crouch