Best forget & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.”

“The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.”

Want Self Whole Universe Wish Forget Ignorance Infinite Who You Are Burden Endless Release

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”

Self Whole Individual Loses Forget Sacrifice Society Produce Losing Impulse Mask Collectives Willingness Forget It Readiness Unwanted Compact Revulsion Slough

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.”

Self Would Be Individual Forget Mankind Limits Bounds Welfare

Author:Alfred Adler

“Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.”

Ifs Needs Should Mean Persons Self Facts Bigs Spiritual Belief Forget Views Worry Seeing Shoes Oneself Point Of View Reaching Divinity Serving Cheer Adjustment Baba

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.”

Humans Self Forget Secret Seeking Human Happiness

Book:Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions

Source: Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions

“I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's not pornographic. He's a master of eroticism. I stopped being self-conscious. You have to forget everything.”

Self Lasts Forget Masters Scene Conscious Naked Nervous Shy Self Conscious Reserved Tango Forget Everything

Author:Eva Green

“Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.”

Self Artist Forget Audience Groups Feet Taught Recognition Classroom Outsiders Admirer Avid Self Taught

Author:Scott Kahn

“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

Men Self Natural Forget Higher Losing Commit Guidance Advancing Forget Him

Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.”

Self Interest Forget Self Interest

Book:The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion

Source: The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion

“You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.”

Ifs Self Use Forget Mirrors Looking In The Mirror

Author:Lil Wayne

“Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you, do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of Dua'a. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget it.”

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”

Way Self Forget Study

Book:Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries

Source: Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries

“We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.”

Stills Important Self America Community Forget Leader Worst Stage Members Global Community

Author:Ben Dreyfuss

“Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.”

Writing Self Forget Example Abandonment Good Examples

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.”

Ifs Firsts Heart May Important Self Hurt Forget Boys Forever Trouble Lessons First Time

Book:Thirty Girls

Source: Thirty Girls

“Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.”

Thinking Kind Mean Self Forget Serious Illusion Dear Various Myth Characteristics Always Thinking Serious Life

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the Earth. In my waking rational life I often forget about the Earth, or I get worried or confused by contradictory information. With my dreaming brain I can have access to powerful images of what is going on in the Earth, from day to day.”

I Can Self Moments Use Dream Earth Interest Forget Powerful Brain Information Access Rational Worried Confused Waking Day To Day Contradictory

Author:Amy Hardie

“In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.”

Self Moments Christ Answers Forget Worry Struggle Protect Elements Stress Addiction Storm Fists

Author:Ann Voskamp

“I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.”

Soul Self Shows Moving Forget Steps Honor My Soul Ceremony Alacrity

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”

Thinking I Can Self States Remember House Easy Space White Forget United Cities United States Circumstances Office Window Fortunate White House Self Contained

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.”

“To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.”

Thinking Men Self Interest Justice Forget Enemy Share Angel Stranger Doing Right

Author:David Dudley Field II

“My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition, or interest. Thanks are due not to me, but Thee, from whom all I possess is derived. And what are the paltry gifts for which my neighbor forgets to thank me, compared with the immense blessings for which I have so often forgotten to be grateful to Thee!”

“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”

“Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.”

Real Self Eye Force Forget Results Letting Go Working It Forget It Resigned Just Let Go Unconcerned

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.”

Self Forget Seeking Cups Service To Others

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Needs Feels Writing Wells Book Self Play Stories Girl Asks Sex Forget Boys Mankind Emotional Bed Conscious Nonsense Worthwhile Forget It Self Conscious Frigid

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.”

World Looks Stills Self Spirit Lying Mother Night Stars Peace Voice Sleep Forget Quiet Speech Harm Hiding Nurse Within You Restless Bosoms You Again Noisy Folding

Author:Max Ehrmann

“Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.”

Self Remember Forget Meditation Yoga Prejudice Strive Seeking Meditating Inspirational Meditation

Book:As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace

Source: As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace

“It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.”

“Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.”

Self Sometimes Reality Remember Forget Magic Essence Seeking Fingertips

Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

“The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.”

Self Forget Practice Uniting

Author:Yamada Koun

“I think we've become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.”

Thinking Important Self Moments Happens Culture Forget Fronts Tvs Phones That Moment Performers Emergencies Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Laura Benanti

“What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.”

World Way Self Forget Study Oneself Enlightened

Author:Dogen

“If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.”

Ifs Years Looks Said Self Remember Spirit Forget One Thing Seeds Stuck If I Could Never Forget Mary Teenage Rebellious Nun Rebuke Teenage Years

Author:Patricia Mauceri

“Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.”

Thinking World Real Self Lost Causes Forget Greater This World Higher Difficulty Good Things Forget You Higher Self Real Self

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.”

People War Self Forget Virtue Selfish Pursuit Generous Engaged Etc Sympathetic Magnanimity

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their own abilities to discover and respond to opportunities for earning income, those abilities atrophy. People forget - or never learn in the first place - how to help themselves, and eventually some of them simply accept their helplessness.”

People Firsts Self Helping Government Opportunity Ability Forget Accepting Support Exercise Income Dependent Earning Payment Transfers Helplessness Self Reliant Atrophy

Author:Robert Higgs

“Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.”

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.”

World Mind May Important Self Matter Moments Given Understanding Forget No Matter What Everlasting Daily Experience True Understanding

Author:Matsuo Basho

“The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.”

Real Self States Form Forget Love Is Consciousness Pure Shining Supreme Devotion Realization Bliss Real Love Self Knowledge Real Knowledge Pure Bliss

Author:Ramana Maharshi

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