About Yourself Quotes - Page 16

• It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in particular, when you think, well, I'm going to believe what I like, but I'll say what the powerful want, you do that over time, and you believe what you say.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. May 1, 2004.

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• The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Fun, Self Esteem, Talking

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.

  V V Brown

  Growing Up, Thinking, Grows

  "V V Brown Tells How She Fights Homesickness!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2012.

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• Over the years since then though, I couldn't even begin to try and count all the mistakes I've made but also, all the joys I've found while traveling on the road. So in living this kind of lifestyle day in and day out for that many years you learn. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about how people should be treated and how they should treat each other. For the most part, I've really learned patience, temperament and fairness all around.

  Chuck Ragan

  Mistake, Years, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• You could then use the dream to learn more about yourself, others, the world, and the nature of life. You can come awake in the matrix and realize you're the one in your own dream. People on the spiritual path can do that, thus they can avoid wasting the whole night, and use it in a developmental, nice way.

  Robert Thurman

  Dream, Spiritual, Nice

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

  George Carlin

  Betrayal, Thinking, Saws

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• There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.

  Van Morrison

  Men, Vision, Nerves

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com.

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• The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Depression, Grows, Universe

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• But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Strong, Love You, Order

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• There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you will not know light. Ears say something about the sound; without ears you will not know anything about the sound. There is a sixth sense, the inner sense, that shows and tells you something about yourself and the ultimate source of things. That sense has to be discovered. Meditation is nothing but the discovery of the inner sense.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Light, Discovery

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• Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hate, Journey, Gossip

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• Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  Encouragement, Stars, Ocean

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• Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Giving Up

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• The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Matter, Opinion

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• The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Matter, Opinion

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• You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing ... My hope is, as we get out of it, we'll reach the next level of conscience.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  War, Next Level, Levels

  "Gwyneth Paltrow on Internet Trolls: 'I See Myself as a Screen'" by Nellie Bowles, www.recode.net. May 27, 2014.

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• Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

  Eli Pariser

  Google, Information, Able

  "5 Questions with Eli Pariser, Author of ‘The Filter Bubble’". Interview with Bryan Walsh, techland.time.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff; if it makes you feel better about yourself and it's done properly, then fine.

  Courteney Cox

  Moving, Feel Better, Skins

  "Courteney Cox Loves Botox, Therapy". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

  John Green

  Faces, Energy, South Carolina

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

  Yasmina Khadra

  Mankind, Knows

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• Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Jobs, Soul

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• The Earth school is not a concept. It is an an ongoing 3-dimesional, full colour, hi-fidelity, interactive multi-media experience that does not end until your soul goes home (until you die). Every moment in the earth school offers you important opportunities to learn about yourself. Those things have to do with your soul. The Earth school operates with exquisite perfection and efficiency whether you are aware of it or not.

  Gary Zukav

  Home, School, Opportunity

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• When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

  Victor Hugo

  Truth, Honesty, Speak

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• Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

  Philip Larkin

  People, Poetry, Novel

  "Required Writing". Book by Philip Larkin, 1983.

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• So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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