Testimonial

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“This above all: to thine own self be true.” 

― William Shakespeare 

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” 

― Rumi

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” 

― Toni Morrison

“We know ourselves very little. We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe; far out on a distant edge, hearing a little of what is transpiring.”

― David Eaglemann

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” 

― May Sarton

“I am forever fettered to myself [...] 

and that's what I must try to live with.” 

― Franz Kafka

“A self is not something static, 

tied up in a pretty parcel and handed 

to the child, finished and complete. 

A self is always becoming.” 

― Madeleine L'Engle

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”

 ― Søren Kierkegaard

The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? 

Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” 

— Epictetus

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” 

― Masaru Emoto

"My past is everything I failed to be.” 

― Fernando Pessoa 

“It is not for me to judge another man's life. 

I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely 

for myself. For myself, alone.” 

― Herman Hesse

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.” 

― Jean-Paul Sartre 

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy 

the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.” 

― Jim Morrison

“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” 

― Elizabeth Gilbert 

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. 

All I hear is the symphony.” 

― Fernando Pessoa 

“Cowardice is when you hide away from your real self, and wear another self in pretense. Be yourself; that is bravery. If yourself is not better for you to be, change yourself and live in that changed self!” 

― Israelmore Ayivor 

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”

 ― André Berthiaume

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.” 

― Hellen Keller

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.” 

― Brennan Manning, 

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is 

to lose your own sense of self and accept 

the version of you that is expected by everyone else.” 

― K.L. Toth

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.” 

― Nayyirah Waheed

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. 

But deep down below the surface 

of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 

something is out of tune. ” 

― Carl Gustav Jung

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”

 ― Suzanne Collins 

“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?” 

― Hermann Hesse

“I ached with loss that I’d never allowed myself 

to feel. As if I was leaving something important 

behind. And that something was me.” 

― A. Lynn

“But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, 

it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe 

it was right. Forgiving that person means 

you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; 

you have moved on with your life.” 

― Idowu Koyenikan

“Realize you have awesome people around you who want to love you. Let them. Show them you love them back. (Actions trump words.) Do the forgiveness thing. If necessary-and it almost always is- do the forgiveness thing on yourself.”

― Kari Luna

“Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.” 

― Lailah Gifty Akita

“the worst thing," he told me, 

"is bitterness, people end up so bitter.” 

― Charles Bukowski

“YOU MATTER- "if you forgive yourself then you can forgive others, if you control yourself then you can control others, if you understand yourself then you can understand others, if you love yourself then you can love others, if you respect yourself then you can respect others. Everything starts with only YOU. 

You Matter in your life.” 

― Sivaprakash Sidhu

“Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. 

You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!” 

― Israelmore Ayivor, 

“The sky is not my limit...I am.” 

― T.F. Hodge 

“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.” 

― Ayn Rand 

“Don't look to the approval 

of others for your mental stability” 

― Karl Lagerfeld

“Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.”

 ― Octavio Paz 

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!” 

― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment.” 

― Alan Wilson Watts 

“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”

― Robert Burton 

“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.” “As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.” 

― Omar Khayyám 

“Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!”

― Israelmore Ayivor

“It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”

 ― Terry Pratchett 

“There's always the option of deciding 

for yourself who you are and what you'll become.” 

― Jodi Meadows

“We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.” ― Parker J. Palmer

“We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, 

is planted within ourselves...” 

― Seja Majeed

“Do not wait for someone else to validate your existence; it is your own responsibility.” 

― Jasz Gill

“Feelings are something you have; not something you are.” ― Shannon L. Alder

“The worst battle you'll have to fight 

is between what you know and how you feel.”

 ― Turcois Ominek

“The only way you can reach your full potential is if you open up and allow your self 

to be exposed to how you really feel.”

 ― Turcois Ominek

“We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, 

understand and recognize value 

and distinction in our lives. 

If we did not have bitter, 

we could not appreciate sweet....” 

― I. Alan Appt

“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, 

we are of what we do or fail to do.” 

― Judith McNaught

“What destroys us most effectively 

is not a malign fate but our own capacity

 for self-deception and for degrading 

our own best self.” 

― George Eliot

“At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.”

 ― Brendan Francis

“Can't get away from your own self.” 

― Holly Black

“To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.” 

― Simone de Beauvoir 

“To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.” 

― L. Frank Baum 

“Unless we take that first step into the unknown, 

we will never know our own potential!”

 ― Allan Rufus 

“It follows that I must accept myself 

for what I am before I can deliberately change it.” 

― Christmas Humphreys

“There is no growth without risk. 

There is always something to be gained from any experience. 

It is up to us to interpret our truth of self.” 

― Truth Devour 

“A personal revolution is 

the consequence of confronting self - as is.” 

― T.F. Hodge 

“You are always left with choice not chance” 

― Sridhar Dasari

“Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.” 

― Alice Walker

“I protect myself by refusing to know myself.” 

― Floriano Martins

“Wherever you go, there you are.” 

― Thomas à Kempis 

“I saw my earlier selves as different 

people, acquaintances I had outgrown. 

I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.” 

― Roger Zelazny 

“hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but don't hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing” 

― Shujoy Chowdhury

“A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.” 

― T.F. Hodge 

“We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.” 

― Kristin Cast 

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment 

with which to appear before the world.” 

― Kate Chopin 

“He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.” 

― Chuck Palahniuk 

“You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.” 

― Tonya Hurley 

“I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; 

but who shall wall Self from myself, 

most loathed of all?” 

― Christina Rossetti

“The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.” 

― Eric Hoffer

“Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. 

Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!” 

― Israelmore Ayivor

“How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?”

 ― Kyle Schmalenberg

“Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.” 

― Geoffrey Wood

“There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.” 

― Russell Hoban, 

“When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.” 

― Vivian Amis, 

“The man who has forgotten self 

may be said to have entered Heaven.” 

― Zhuangzi 

“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.” 

― Mitch Albom

“Success - is not about defeating others; 

but about defeating oneself.” 

― Ashok Kallarakkal

“The key to failure is, lack of self discipline.” 

― Sivaprakash Sidhu  

“Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!  Your life mainly consists of 3 things!  What you think, What you say and What you do!  So always be very conscious of what you are co-creating!” 

― Allan Rufus

“What you see, say, think, and believe about yourself affects your feelings, decisions, and actions.” 

― Maddy Malhotra

“You are the only person that you'll have for the rest of your life. Cherish yourself. Treat yourself with kindness. Love yourself. Be your own caretaker.” 

― Dani N M

“By gazing inward the true reflection of the self is revealed.” 

― Miranda J. Barret 

“So this was what it was like not to be me.” 

― Miranda July 

“Your self-image tells about 

what you think about yourself 

and how you appear to yourself 

in your own conscience. Self-image is 

the picture of yourself carried in your own mind.” 

― Israelmore Ayivor 

“Once we are lost unto ourselves, 

everything else is lost to us.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

“We only betray ourselves.” 

― MacDonald Harris 

“The greatest victory a person can have 

is the victory over himself.” 

― Sunday Adelaja

"When you try to understand everything, 

you will not understand anything. 

The best way is to understand yourself, 

and then you will understand everything."

― Shunryu Suzuki

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment,

 God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, 

but why he had not been Zusya.  

― Walter Kaufmann