Self-understanding
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
If one is to be ultimately at peace with himself . . . what he can be, he must be.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
Improvement begins with I.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
Most of us grow up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of chainmail [armor] that none can pierce.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
Start where you are, but don't stay there.