It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
You are not who you think you are. You are not your fears, your thoughts, or your body. You are not your insecurities, your career, or your memories. You're not what you're criticized for and you're n...
The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality
If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects shar...
If you know who you are, it makes you immune to criticism
First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.
If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious...
You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not
No one can give you that which you can find within yourself.
SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctr...
I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.