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To win, you have to believe you will win.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.
— Geoffrey Wood
And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.
— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection
— Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days
...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]
— Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days
There are days you live through
—  mediocre days that people may see as a waste or even boring. But they are each days that get you to the days you live for
Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Believe in yourself, you can do whatever you want.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never believe all that you hear.Always verify the original source of information.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believe in yourself. Determined to pursue your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You must see yourself with it before you can have it.It comes down to three questions: 1. Do you believe you can have it? 2. Do you believe you deserve it?3. How bad do you want it?If you believe you can have it, you believe you deserve it, and you want it bad enough; you will envision yourself with it and work to get it!
— Michelle Hollis
COVERT CONVERTIf you don't believe in God, then believe in the hidden camera
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
If we truly believe that we are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ, our actions would begin to reflect that belief.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
It is better to believe than to doubt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.
— John Verndon
God is faithful even when we are unfaithful.
— Jim George
God rewards those who put Him first and seek to do His will.
— Jim George
The only thing it took for her to be beautiful was to believe that she was.
— Kamiyah Franks
Let the car drive and let your heart follow.
— Ayah, Rachel Wilson
Nothing is impossible, you simply just have to believe it.
— Jim Jensen
God’s ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.
— Jim George
God’s Word changes the way you think, feel, and live.
— Elizabeth George
Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
One of the most challenging aspects for those who are seeking to find the God of their understanding for the first time is His formlessness. It can be difficult to believe in, and connect with, something that cannot be seen. Perhaps this is because although God is in all things He is felt and experienced on levels that relate directly to the condition of our own hearts.
— Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery
Working hard is important, but there's something that matters even more. Believing in yourself. Think of it this way: Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now. Students. If they can do it, why not us?
— J.K. Rowling
Believe in yourself and have faith in your abilities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And that’s basically the end of this story. I know it sounds unbelievable and all. And I’m not saying I can explain all the time travel parts or the magical tattoo parts. You may not even believe me. That’s okay, though. I know it happened and that’s all that counts.
— Dinah Katt, Once Upon a Time Travel
Believe and faith in God makes all things possible.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Most Christians believe that Jesus IS God, that Jesus is the same jealous and angry God that abhorred homosexuals and condemned them as "an abomination." He is the same deity that gave instructions on how to beat slaves and the same divine Creator that suggested the stoning of non-believers and disobedient children. You have to accept the good along with the bad... after all, he came not to abolish the Hebrew laws, but to fulfill them (Matthew 5:17).
— David G. McAfee
If you Believe in yourself, Others will Believe in you,.
— jainder
To find yourself different than others, you must believe,behave and act differently.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Life as time passes may become stale that’s why we have got to believe that the best things are yet to come.
— Roxcy Joy Afable
I don't beleive in peoples .I don't think it's always true.I believe Buddha knowledge and I believe in god ,I beleive in goodness.I think different from others it is the way I am
— Chunyanuch
Never rule anything out. Even the exact opposite of what you believe.
— Stephanie Lennox, The Authorship Program
God's love and mercy are for all people.
— Jim George
Doesn´t matter who you are or what you believe. Everybody has a ghost story
— Robin Parrish, Nightmare
Live life like there's no tomorrow, and never stop believing in yourself!
— Jennifer Lovering
Integrity never goes out of style.
— Jim George
Crazy is relative.
— Tina Laningham, A Glass of Crazy
A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other.
— Jim George
I know it's crazy to believe in silly things, but it's not that easy
— kodaline
You're missing the point. It's not that I believe in what Lee's saying; it's that I hope he's right. I really, really hope he's right, because what's the alternative?
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
I wonder how it is possible to believe in religion and also believe nothing is wrong with you.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Her eyes Her bodyHer heart Makes me believe In magic In destiny In myself
— Kirk Diedrich, Junk Shop Heart
We are supposed to be different. Do not try to put round pegs in square holes. When people look at us, believe in yourself.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices
Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.
— Elizabeth George, Life Management for Busy Women: Living Out God's Plan with Passion & Purpose
When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.
— Elizabeth George, Loving God with All Your Mind
It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, Where Men Sit
An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.
— Jim George
Only in God can you find true fulfillment.
— Jim George
The way religion makes thousands believe is itself a miracle.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
— Helen Keller
Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
It is never too late to show true character.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
If in some radical miracle, the Abrahamic God revealed his existence to the world, I’d accept the belief in the deity — but I still wouldn't worship it. The jealous and angry God that justified the killings of millions, sent plagues upon first borns, and abhorred homosexuals would not be worthy of my worship.
— David G. McAfee, Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer
It seems the more we know, the less we believe.
— J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.
— Bill Courtney
If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God.
— Jim George
Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense
— Buda
I believe that we should all be free to believe what we want and not be condemned for it,” I say without a thought. “I believe in a higher power and that it works within us. Whatever the name doesn't matter, it's the thought behind it that matters. It's the way we live our lives that matter and as long as I believe that there is someone in the sky there to protect us, no one here will ever break me.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
We have the ability to survive anything.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.
— Elizabeth George, Loving God with All Your Mind
Everything is possible for one who believes
— Anonymous, The Holy Bible (NIV) New International Version
Do not trust and depend on someone as a godfather but accept God the father of all fathers.
— Osunsakin Adewale
don't believe on anything that someone asked you to believe in when in the first place they don't believe in.
— Jinnul Jr.
Never stop believing in your dreams or the power within you to make them come true.
— Tammy L. Kubasko, My Gift to You: The Comfort Zone
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!
— Jim George
There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
How does it feel to be a part of this beautifully ingenious design. I have faith that there is a chosen moment in which my soul will expand infinitely free from time and space. Some may find that foolish but I have reasons for my beliefs that are uniquely my own. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies making up the universe. Earth is only one planet of billions orbiting inside just one of these 500,000 billion or more galaxies. And I myself am one person. One of over seven billion people living on our dynamic little planet. Instead of being diluted by this infinitesimal proportion I accept it as a challenge and I use science to strengthen my spirituality. It provokes curiosity and redefines my view of logical thinking. I believe that existence is based on the exchange of energy and functionality. Energy is expended to carry out varying tasks ensuring the function of an organism. This is evident in every life form and has been the founding principle supporting lifetimes of discoveries. Energy is spent with purpose. I can't help but draw the conclusion that the energy required to create the universe itself was done so for a purpose. You and I were created with a purpose. -Tavia Rahki Smith
— Tavia Rahki Smith
I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying part of that wisdom in you. When it's time to offload it, do so with all passion!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!
— Jim George
Believe," said the rumbling voice. "If you are to survive, you must believe.""Believe what?" asked Shadow. "What should I believe?"He stared at Shadow, the buffalo man, and he drew himself up huge, and his eyes filled with fire. He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth."Everything," roared the buffalo man.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to theirintellectual level.
— Daniel Willey
In the midst of all of this perfect beauty, timeless since the days of Eve, it's the touch of God creating miracles, if in your heart you just believe.
— Lisa Mischelle Wood, Just Believe: A Collection of Christian Poetry and Photo-Quotes
To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Wall Around Your Heart
i'm not a dreamerI Just believe in Allah (God)
— Ammar Saifaddin @3mmar02
Success is waking up in the morning and bounding out of bed because there's something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you're good at - something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again.
— Whit Hobbs
He taught me to fight, to defend myself, to stand up for what I believe in, and protect people I love. I thanked him for that lesson after that weekend in New Orleans when some guy put his hands on Delia, and I had to tear him apart.
— Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours
I trutly believe we are a rollercoaster, we are up, down have twist´s, but at the end, you discover you had join it.
— Ana Plascencia
Beware the unbelief of others. It's contagious!
— Jim George
Even when the odds are overwhelming, you can believe in God and His promises.
— Jim George
It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.
— Michael J. Kannengieser, The Daddy Rock
Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not hear Christ’s message and voice; unless they hear him, they will not believe the truths of his death and resurrection; unless they believe these truths, they will not call on him; and unless they call on his name, they will not be saved.
— John R.W. Stott
Have confidence in God's character, love, and power.
— Katy Kauffman, 2 Timothy: Winning the Victory
Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story?
— Chirag Tulsiani
You are my treasure.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
It's so weird how life is so full of moving around--people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person's going to steal your heart. You never know which is going to settle your soul. All you can do is look. And hope. And believe.
— Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic
The best way to make something last is to believe that it won't.
— Barbara Ann Kipfer
What makes you believe, that you are the only person with so much problems and bad luck? If you wear everyone’s shoes, you will certainly understand that the whole world is drowning in crisis and even you are not among them.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there.
— James     Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
If you don’t do anything today without power
—  no one will believe you may do when you have the power.
I don't know why but they you said it I started believing it.
— Salman Naveed
Success makes me happy, but it doesn’t give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.
— Mike Mignola, Hellboy, Vol. 7: The Troll Witch and Others
Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
I have faith in us as a family, and our friends. I think we will survive because we don’t wish to harm anyone. If you ever need something to believe in, believe that to stand and fight for the people you love is the most honorable thing you can do with your life.
— Jessica Fortunato, Sacrifice
At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in his mother's plastic Baggie. He believes that stars fall from the sky sometimes, and that his mother goes around collecting them like acorns. He believes she has to use heavy gloves and dark sunglasses because the fallen stars are so hot and shiny. She puts them in the freezer for forty-five minutes, and when they come out they are flat and silver and sticky on the back and ready for his shirts.
— Jerry Spinelli, Loser
Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
If I don’t believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me.
— M.F. Moonzajer
What do you want, Mary Foxe? My husband?" “I believe in him," she said slowly. I wondered if she’d ever told him that, and if so, what he had to say about it. Someone you made up turns around and tells you they believe in you— what response could you possibly make? The scenario is just plain weird. And really kind of impertinent on her part, too. If it happened to me I think I’d be speechless for the rest of my life.
— Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
To be acknowledged that we do not believe in their misleading notion and fallacy, today, tomorrow and forever even if it costs us our life. They have suffocated people for hundreds of years and if we don’t stop them today no one else would do it tomorrow.
— M.F. Moonzajer
All we have to do is ask and believe that God will work on our behalf and give us what we need to overcome and rise above the adversities and stress that we are facing.
— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World
Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it.
— Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
— Ken Venturi
Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.
— Kathryn Littlewood, A Dash of Magic
What did you think about?" I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won't do it again. And besides, I wasn't thinking about Xander either. "I thought about angels," I say."Angels?""You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven." "Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?" He asks."I don't know. No. Do you?""I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have.
— Ally Condie, Matched
I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.
— David K. Bernard, Growing a Church: Seven Apostolic Principles
Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.
— Craig Groeschel, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are
Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean its not real
— McCormick Templeman, The Little Woods
When people show you who they are
—  believe them.
The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.
— Andy Lane, Fire Storm
To live a normal life, you just have to believe nothing is normal.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
— Holly Black, White Cat
We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to the Laws of Creation
I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
There's not a woman in the world who won't buy a Lie she wants to Believe
— Olivia Goldsmith, Bad Boy
Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in.
— Hans Selye, From Dream To Discovery: On Being A Scientist
Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and devotion—I still don't believe in them.  For I know the truth.  Only one such miracle worker exists who performs magic in my life, seeing to my wants and needs without fail.  That queen is my mother.  With unwavering faith I believe in her.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.
— Jill Telford
Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
I don't know when I'll able to knock in the door of her mind. But I believe in my love, enthusiasm and passion. Someday dream may come true.
— Santonu Kumar Dhar
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
— Bryant McGill
Truth to tell, I'm right proud of Glory. She's standing up for what she believes is right. All of us should lead our children to do that, don't you know?
— Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
If you're still believing, then you're almost there!
— Anthony Liccione
If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.
— Shina Charles Memud
It's only a moment if you believe.
— Jason Connelly
But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.
— Karen Tayleur, Love Notes From Vinegar House
Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost
— Hayley Williams
Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.
— David Eddings
If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?
— Teresa Mummert
Never underestimate what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself. (Unknown)
— D.J. Stutley
The more we do to you,the less you seem to believe we are doing it.
— Joseph mengele
Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!
— Raymond Benson, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.
— Anthony Liccione
... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And yet ... I don't disbelieve either. I'm kind of sitting on the ghost fence, dangling my legs on both sides, not sure which way to jump. I think I might be here for a while.
— Karen Tayleur, Love Notes From Vinegar House
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— C.G. Jung
But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
— C.G. Jung
The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.
— C. JoyBell C.
At the center of your beingyou have the answer
— you know who you areand you know what you want.
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
— André Malraux
You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
— Dolly Parton
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
— Socrates
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
— Oprah Winfrey, The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
— Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates
— Socrates
Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: “One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels.” So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you – of how you were brought into this world and why – and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
— Eckhart Tolle
You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
— Theodor W. Adorno
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
— Albert Camus
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
— Jimmy Buffett
She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.
— Aisha Mirza
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
— Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas
We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.
— Wally Lamb, We Are Water
[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere. (xiii)
— Sarah Ban Breathnach, Moving On: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
— Søren Kierkegaard
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.
— Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician King
From "Wetness and Water"How does a part of the world leave the world?How can wetness leave water?Do not try to put out a fireby throwing on more fire.Do not wash a wound with blood.No matter how fast you run,your shadow more than keeps up.Sometimes it's in front.Only full, overhead sundiminishes your shadow.But that shadow has been serving you.What hurts you blesses you.Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Big Red Book
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
— Meister Eckhart
I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.
— Robin McKinley, Sunshine
There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.
— Anonymous, The Dhammapada
Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
— Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
Self-awareness of one’s faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.
— Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
— Joseph Campbell
Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says "but wait..." Don't ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to that voice means stepping outside of yourself and considering your own wrongdoings and flaws.
— Ashly Lorenzana
I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.
— Keith Richards
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?
— Ayn Rand, We the Living
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
If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?
— C.H. Hamel
The need to prove who you are will vanish once you know who you are.
— Danielle Pierre, Just Make It Happen!
Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know
— Craig Ferguson
If I ever leave this place-I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.
— Benilde Little, Acting Out
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
— Vernon Howard
A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure--as if it mattered. It seemed to him now that such thoughts were mean, unworthy of what his life had been. Dim presences gathered at the edge of his consciousness; he could not see them, but he knew that they were there, gathering their forces toward a kind of palpability he could not see or hear. He was approaching them, he knew; but there was no need to hurry. He could ignore them if he wished; he had all the time there was.There was a softness around him, and a languor crept upon his limbs. A sense of his own identity came upon him with a sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.
— John  Williams, Stoner
She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.
— Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions, we end our search for them. And God. Soon enough, we'll all come to realize we can't be God. We'll settle for telling ourselves we can. Or we'll just make one up.
— Brian Krans, A Constant Suicide
Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men,You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.
— Anonymous, The Dhammapada
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)
— Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
— David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair
Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
...She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself.
— Sandra Kitt, Close Encounters
He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never shelter behind anything, are just themselves, straightforward.
— Arnaldur Indriðason, Silence of the Grave
If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes is not listening to negative thoughts, yours or anyone else's. Disregarding negative thoughts isn't hiding our head in the sand, but simply not allowing the negative to clutter and influence over our experience of the present moment. The moment is never improved or helped by negativity, although we are programmed to think our negative thoughts, worries, and fears serve a useful function. When you really examine this idea, however, you see that negativity doesn't serve. Focusing on negativity and fears doesn't make anyone a better person, nor does doing that help us function better in the world. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite.
— Gina Lake, What about Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
‎"The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life." (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, February 18, 1954)
— Shoghi Effendi
Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)
— Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance:  A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Without awareness, we are not truly alive.
— James F.T. Bugental
I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
— Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.
— Robert Masello, Blood and Ice
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
— David Brin, Earth
With the compelling convincingness of dreams, which are vague yet exact, the ghost voice draws us (to ourselves and all of our component selves), lifts them casually out of the well of the past--the well wherein nothing is lost, the deep well of forgetfulness, and remembrance--and tosses them mockingly on the glassy table surface of our consciousness. There we are forced to consider them. There we are forced to regard, analyze, and re-understand.
— Heinrich Robert Zimmer, The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
...friendship is something you do.
— Nuala O'Faolain, Almost There
But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
— Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
Who can say for certain that he is sincere, who can say for certain that he believes? In the midst of of our deepest emotions we are acting a comedy with ourselves; within us one self is always mocking another self. - priscilla and emily lofte
— George Moore, Celibate Lives
True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.
— Sanaya Roman
Perhaps the gift you seek already resides within you awaiting the day you choose to unwrap it.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
The world each person creates for himself is a distinctive world, not the same world others occupy.
— Dean C. Barnlund
The fact that we're all different is the one thing we all have in common.
— Justin Young
I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.
— Samael Aun Weor
[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt.
— A.S. Byatt
I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn.
— Iggy Pop, The Complete Lyrics of Iggy Pop 1969-1999
Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be harmful. The more self-aware you are, the less likely you are to be vulnerable to your illusions. The more aware you are, the more you can do with your life.
— Robert H. Bolton
The reality of life does not change who you are, it only changes your perspective.
— Morgan Chabane
Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.
— Solange nicole
It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! (117)
— Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Before you can be effective in communication with ANYONE else, you must know who YOU are. It begins with you. Believe me when I say, I don't need anyone's approval in this classroom ... I'm great company for myself. Me, myself, and I ... we laugh a lot. (Said on the first week of class each phase, somewhat rewording each time, but the gist is always there).
— Dacia Wilkinson
When it comes to ourselves, we often have a blind spot. That is, we fail to see ourselves as others see us. We fail to recognize our most obvious traits: our strengths, weaknesses, mannerisms.
— Mark Link, Challenge: A Daily Meditation Program Based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
...that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignoranve, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itself. It would be easier to imagine a revolver bullet extracting itself from its victim's wound and re-entering the barrel. Yes, it would be easier to imagine the universe's explosion suddenly halting its outflow of energy, so that the galaxies congeal once more, and the millions of light-years of their flight through space are immediately annulled.
— Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
I should learn from today and make tomorrow better.
— Toni Sorenson
Success and failure are largely the results of our habitual thoughts & many people create by default. — Marie Cunningham
— Marie  Cunningham
I am in love with life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point.
— Willa Cather, Not Under Forty
Whenever one person in a relationship is unwilling or unable to contact his or her vulnerability in the interaction, there is a simultaneous movement into judgement: self-attack, attack of the other, or both. This is a chicken-or-the-egg situation: Do you resort to judgment for protection because you don't feel safe, or are you not feeling safe because of the presence of judgment? This is a fundamental question in dealing with the judge.
— Byron Brown, Soul Without Shame: A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within
Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The unknown is created through your thoughts. To be afraid of your thoughts is not practical nor prudent. One must acknowledge their own well-being through right thinking - love the self. In loving yourself, you think right for yourself. Love = Balance in body, mind, and spirit. All people, places, and things have "purpose" - each is manifested through right thinking. As such, you are of spirit, and through spirit all things are possible. Love yourself as you are in body, mind, and spirit today and you will know truth of the matter for you is now here. You create. You own your life. Allow yourself to manifest the good, the loving, the kind, the generous for you today and all days. So be it.
— Catherine Marie Bergman, Autobiography of My Guardian Angel: Divine Words From Above to be Read by Humankind
Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don't let anyone lead you to live a guarded life that is all.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
She wrote books—and she was happy.
— Veda Bardot
As a leader you should look in the mirror and ask yourself would I follow you ensured of a victory.
— Donavan Nelson Butler
Strength isn't measured by how many things or people you manage but more prevalent is how much you can self manage and guide yourself to your next check point.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
Life Algebra 101 - I truly value my own ignorance of what is to come for me, It is those unknown variables the shape my future based on my knowns of today and yesterday.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
My position is for one to be thought of as a CHARACTER is totally different from one having CHARACTER.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
If you haven't learned to love yourself you are in reality living a lie proclaiming to be in love with someone else.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army