Best knowing & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.”

Ifs Believe Self Wisdom I Believe Knowing Core Intuitive Better Life Believe You Can

Author:Peter Shepherd

“Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”

Self Beautiful Knowledge Knowing Ignorance Ugly

Author:Plotinus

“A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.”

Ifs Knows Men Feels Self Motivational Understanding Compassion Known Enemy Knowing Angry Viewpoints

Author:Rajneesh

“A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.”

“Knowing the Self, God is known.”

Self Known Knowing

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”

Men Mean Doe Self Behinds Attitude Knowing Virtue Fashion Judging Circumstances Judgment Likes Command Hypocrisy One Man Righteous Spoiled Exaggerated Judgmental Mental Attitude Self Righteous

Author:Criss Jami

“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.”

Ifs Mind Made Self Light Voice White Knowing Bed All Things Green Ease Warmth Sunlight Affectionate

Book:Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

“The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.”

Firsts Self Might Age Half Quality Knowing Defined 1960s Nonchalant

Author:Martin Filler

“Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives.”

Source: Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

“The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.”

Source: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture

“...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”

“Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.”

“According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.”

“Self-esteem creates natural highs. Knowing that you're lovable helps you to love more. Knowing that you're important helps you to make a difference to to others. Knowing that you are capable empowers you to create more. Knowing that you're valuable and that you have a special place in the universe is a serene spiritual joy in itself.”

Source: On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation

“We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.”

People Knows Self Play Passion Results Knowing Awareness Property Humankind Self Knowledge Pondering Knowing Something

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.”

“There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.”

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Author:Susan L. Taylor

“That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.”

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Author:Jennifer Hudson

“Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.”

Important Self Helping Goal Knowing Limits Important Things Self Confidence Identifying

Author:Shirley Conran

“I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.”

Knows Self Facts Stories Memories Knowing Mythology Combination Delusion Guests True Story Selective Self Delusion

Author:Terry Gross

“Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.”

“Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'”

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Author:Gene Simmons

“The way in which I know Christianity is true is first and foremost is the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. And this gives me self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence. And therefore, even if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity, I do not think that controverts the witness of the Holy Spirit.”

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Author:William Lane Craig

“Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.”

Real Self Life Is Difficult Practice Knowing Theory Oneself Real Life Knowing Oneself

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children.”

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Author:Daniel Goleman

“The more that you're knowing, the more you will be feeling and seeing, the more that you will hurt in your heart, and in your self. Deep heart understanding replaces your need and your holding of personal truths.”

Needs Heart Self Feelings Understanding Hurt Knowing Seeing Deep Heart Personal Truth

Author:John de Ruiter

“As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.”

Self Seems Knowing Drama Patterns

Author:John de Ruiter

“If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.”

Ifs Knows Self Knowing Self Knowledge Know Yourself Self Knowing

Author:RZA

“My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing her, my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing, Terry, and very emotional.”

Years Firsts Kind Self Light Mother Found Born Knowing Happened Self Esteem Emotional Mom Findings My Mom Esteem Pregnant Shed Detroit Were Pregnant

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.”

Source: Make Magic of Your Life: Passion, Purpose, and the Power of Desire

“The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.”

“Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.”

Self Use Passion Knowing Subjects Advantage Humankind Preservation Deprived Brutes Self Preservation

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.”

World Mind Self Running Past Time Loses Knowing Objects Circumstances Originals Slave Track Objectives Not Knowing Threatening Disagreeable True Or False

Book:Manual of Zen Buddhism

Source: Manual of Zen Buddhism

“Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me”

Years Self Lasts Death Knowing Fire Wave

Author:W. S. Merwin

“I think we have to go through everything we go through in our life, and I believe my purpose in life was to teach self-reliance. So I had the experience of relying on myself very early in life in order to have that knowing, because otherwise I would've just read about it. I think of it now as a great advantage that I had. It certainly taught me to rely upon myself at a very young age. And that's what I've been teaching since I was a little boy.”

“I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.”

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Author:Halle Berry

“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.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.”

World Art Stills Self Moments Form Ability Grief Knowing Possibility Color Evolution Shadow Meetings Someday Simplest Liberating

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!”

Knows Men Self States Knowing Ignorance Areas Senses Satisfied Knowing Nothing Unawareness

Book:The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

Source: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

“People talk about discipline, but to me, there's discipline and there's self-discipline. Discipline is listening to people tell you what to do, where to be, and how to do something. Self-discipline is knowing that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life; you are the only one who can take yourself to the desired heights.”

People Self Happens Knowing Listening Discipline Responsible Height Self Discipline

Author:Mike Shanahan

“Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.”

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Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.”

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Author:Truman Capote

“So every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this, we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.”

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Author:Lizzo

“The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.”

Way Self Choices Energy Knowing Keys And Love Self Confidence Chosen Versus

Author:Bill Crawford

“Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.”

Needs Self Knowing Circumstances Contentment

Book:Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships

Source: Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships

“The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you.”

Self Bigs Knowing Seeing Big Picture

Author:Jimmy Iovine

“I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.”

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Author:Common

“The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.”

Wells Soul Self Passion Knowing Identity Eternal All Things Raised Calm Perceive Causation

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Jobs Used Actors Can Do Knowing Fronts Speech Conscious Asking Cameras Nerves Funeral Self Conscious Eulogy

Author:Eddie Marsan

“You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their alienation Then have the problem of how to help them get free, because just by your knowing that they're essentially free, that doesn't free them. Just by your being blissful, it doesn't release them from their knot of separation and false self absolutization.”

Feels Self Helping Problem Suffering Poor Knowing Separation Release Alienation Knots Separateness

Author:Robert Thurman

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