Being Self-directed Quotes
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Being Self-directed Quotes & Sayings
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Self-awareness of one's faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.
— Bauvard
Gratitude promotes good well-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside ... It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
— Sarah Dessen
The good thing about being old is not being young.
— Stephen Richards
The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.
— John De Ruiter
Because no one ever wanted to admit to being in love. Love was too confusing and traitorous to the self. Too dangerous.
— Kendra L. Saunders
A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
— Octavio Paz
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
— Louise Hart
Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".
— John Wooden
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ.
— Richie Norton
I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.
— Aisha Mirza
When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?
— Rob Brezsny
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.
— Judith Viorst
Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?
— Earl R. Smith II
Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If we being to ready the Bible daily; we will awake the divinity of our souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...being in the same room with someone you love that is dying is to watch a part of your own self die.
— Keith Rommel
Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
An important part of becoming your best self is being very careful about your self-talk and self-stories.
— Bryant McGill
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
— Hugh Prather
Believe in your sacred self: strength of your being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have the luxury, I suppose, of being self-employed. But I know what it's like to apply for jobs.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Divinity exists in every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Wherever you walk, stand or sit, do it with self-confidence and be firmly convinced: I am a singer! Being tentative is one of the deadly theatre sins.
— Marita Knobel
Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
— Aristotle.
[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.
— Lindy West
There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.
— Ted Leeson
Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.
— Jesse Ball
Neither you, nor me, are "just vampires." Being vampires is just a part of what we are. There is no need to feel bound and chained by it.
— Tomu Ohmi
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
— Julian Schnabel
Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.
— Stephen King
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
— Will Self
The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.
— Jeffrey Fry
All the material wealth cannot be substituted for the spiritual, physical, emotion and mental well-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To improve your being, appreciate yourself for simplest of reasons.
— Debasish Mridha
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
— Stefan Molyneux
If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.
— T.F. Hodge
G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"
So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be.
Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598 — Gurdieff
So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be.
Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598 — Gurdieff
Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.
— Elvis Costello
Sometimes, when you're not being a jerk, I like you so much it hurts. I like the way your true self comes out when you think no one else is looking.
— Kylie Scott
Gratitude leads to wellness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
— Dawn Gluskin
Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you ...
— Banana Yoshimoto
Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.
— Matthew Parris
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
— Jo Brand
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
— Albert Einstein
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
— Richard Bach
Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
— Janet Fitch
Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of 'our' own accord.
— Dada Bhagwan
The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)
— Robert Baohm
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
— Sheryl Sandberg
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
— Jessica White
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
— Elizabeth Edwards
The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.
— Mark Twight
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.
— Gena Rowlands
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
— G.K. Chesterton
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self All I'm really.
— Robin S. Sharma
Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.
— Michele Jennae
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.
— Frederick Lenz
I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.
— Nick Hornby
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
— Sextus Empiricus
I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.
— Stephanie Grant
I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.
— Troye Sivan
Holistic self-realization is the realization of your heart's desire. Why holistic? Because it involves your entire being.
— Stefan Emunds
I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.
— Agatha Christie
You can prepare for any challenge, if you daily nurture your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.
— Bryant McGill
Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.
— Johnny Rich
In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.
— Arrian
Be thankful for what you capable of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
— Benjamin Disraeli
When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.
— Robert Holden
In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?
— Marilyn Monroe
Never apologize for being you.
— Shelley Coriell
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
— Bill Courtney
Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.
— Martin Seligman