Best self & mind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.”

People Want Mind Self Play Problem Might Pay Crazy Stage Self Esteem Lows Standing Asking Instruments Esteem Low Self Esteem Drive Me Crazy

Author:Colin Quinn

“Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.”

World Mind Self Wisdom Differences This World Buddhism Reflection Self Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.”

World Mind Self Steps Mystery Buddhism Billions Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in that it creates us, because we are the experiencer of the moment.”

Giving Mind Self Moments Awareness Buddhism Drawing Dots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.”

Mind Self States Universe Awareness Buddhism Perceive State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.”

World Mind Self Moments Humanity Possibility Divine Buddhism Western Clouds Gray Shade Intervention Incarnation Divine Intervention Shades Of Gray

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.”

Mind Mean Self Whole Happiness Universe Buddhism Understood Self Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.”

Mind Self Path Health Buddhism Letting Go Ego Interfere Sense Of Self Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

Way Mind Art Self Body Artist Fighting Winning Emotion Situation Health Buddhism Art Is Martial Arts Combat Mastery Self Mastery Athletics Mind Body Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.”

Ifs Writing Mind Self Used Turns Evil Chance Stupid Beats Criticize Stamps Indulge Inadequate Indulge In Epithet

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.”

Inspirational Mind Made Different Self Film Courses Stars Ignorance Buddhism Personality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.”

Inspirational Mind May Self States Seems Beautiful Easy Simple Progress Buddhism Description State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Ideas Self States Philosophy Nice Buddhism Discovery Built Self Discovery Enlightened Realistic State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.”

Ifs Mind Kind Self States Meditation Buddhism Boring Dull Gray State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities”

Ifs Mind Self Use Light Universe Perfect Quality Clear Meditation Buddhism Infinite Originals Coming Back Sense Of Self Radiant Identifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the”

Thinking Mind Self Happiness Desire Wonder Gratitude Satisfaction Peaceful Temporary Joyful Gratification Hooked

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of”

Mind Wells Self Evil Speak Realizing Natural Stupid Solitude Capable Intelligent Who You Are

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.”

Thinking Mind Self Loses Essence Regard Continuity Think Of You

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.”

Mind Heart Soul Self Care Desire Silence Take Care Self Realization Realization Your Soul

Author:Robert Adams

“Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.”

Mind Self States Belief Defense Technique State Of Mind Self Defense

Author:Rorion Gracie

“The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.””

Thinking Mind Self Feelings Dream Order Emotion Self Esteem Judging Ego Essentials Mercy Intellect Supreme Esteem Betrayed Reliance Inarticulate Tribunals

Author:John Galt

“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.”

Thinking Love Mind Wells Self Loses Love Is Destruction Ancient Rational Insanity Greek Delusion Self Destruction Losing Yourself Ancient Greek

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.”

Mind Self Spirit Growth Path Growing Movement Travel Constant Rings Senses Fulfillment Expansion Self Fulfillment Many Paths

Author:Frosty Wooldridge

“Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.”

Mind Self Moments Light Next Effort Consciousness Focus Flower Ocean Eternal Awake Glorious Present Moment Butterfly Within You True Self Here And Now Drifting Like A Butterfly

Author:Denise Linn

“What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.”

Mind Self Spiritual Joy Desire Shining Fulfilled

Author:Lester Levenson

“Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.”

“There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.”

Men Mind Self Body Wise He Man Supreme Controlled Steady Self Control

Author:Publilius Syrus

“I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.”

Men Mind May Littles Self Body Together Hours Drink Tables Fingers Dare Corners Bread Meat Brown Ceremony Turkeys Another Man Onions Chewing

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.”

Men Mind Mean Self Earth Together Hate Sacrifice Produce Unity Noble Tolerance League Facility Peace On Earth Self Sacrifice

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.”

Ifs Writing Mind Self Reading Consciousness Constant Phrases Self Consciousness Mind Set

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.”

Thinking Mind Self Whole Certain Speak Prayer Conversation Lips Praying To God

Author:Thomas Merton

“Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.”

Mind Self Action Belief Fit Concepts Patterns Consistent About Yourself Subconscious Subconscious Mind Belief In Self Words And Actions Self Concept

Book:Universal Laws of Success

Source: Universal Laws of Success

“Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.”

Mind Self Body Light Faces Turns Steps Originals Manifest Inward Mind And Body

Author:Dogen

“If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.”

Ifs Giving Mind Self Creation Illusion Strive Vain

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.”

Mind Self Silence Spokes Confession Self Control

Book:Operation Shylock: A Confession

Source: Operation Shylock: A Confession

“Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.”

Mind Mean Self Feelings Stars Fate Written Holy Anxiety Spring Decided Self Confidence Heavenly Oracles Cybernetics Psycho Cybernetics Lack Of Self Confidence Written In The Stars

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.”

Mind Self Earth Tears Universal Misery Chaos Drunk Ruins Self Respect Hats Owners Hopeless Touching Sober Drunkenness Plugs Muddy

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.”

Mind Self Done Moments Awareness Criticism Self Awareness Unbearable Self Criticism

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.”

Mind Heart Soul Self Four Self Love Degrees Sake God Love

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.”

Giving Mind Self Term Secret Doubt Profound Complexes Humble Realistic Faith In God Eliminating Self-doubt Faith In Yourself Infirmity

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.”

Men Mind Heart Made Self Hands Seems Success Effort Greatness Achievement Claims Arrogant Shallow Heart And Mind Notable Self Made Many Hands

Author:Walt Disney

“Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.”

“Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through all the gradient shifts.”

Mind Mean Self Body Light White Gone Enlightenment Eternity Complexes Refined White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.”

Mind Book Self Reading Awareness Pure Enlightenment Self Knowledge Culmination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness”

Mind Self States Ability Awareness Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.”

Mind Different Self States Process Teacher Teaching Enlightened State Of Mind Lengthy

Author:Frederick Lenz

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