Within Oneself Quotes

33 quotes by 26 authors

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking… — Dalai Lama
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think… — Dalai Lama
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real… — Erich Fromm
A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. — Anni Albers
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless… — Andre Breton
Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and directly. You have… — Chogyam Trungpa
It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will. — Ryan Shay
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a… — Ajahn Chah
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. — Cyril Cusack
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from… — Dalai Lama
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all… — S. N. Goenka
We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. Oneâ€™s inner… — Wendell Berry
Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. — Dalai Lama
Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about the ability, courage, and commitment to end the war within oneself and not… — Richard Machowicz
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so… — Ajahn Chah
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray… — Andre Breton
It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself… — Ramana Maharshi
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others. — David R. Hawkins
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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