Will Self Quotes
They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.
A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.
The more people grow, the more they attain personal mastery. They become assets to the organization, not liabilities..
Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.
A successful person is just a novice who started and kept on going.
Mindfulness is essential in our path toward personal growth. We cannot cannot change what we are not aware of.
Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.
Nothing restricts your peace and happiness more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears.
When you have developed a relationship with yourself, you can begin to take on the world.
It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.
The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.
To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.
When we practice self-compassion in our lives, we are compelled to be more understanding and accepting toward ourselves.
The only true experience is of the immediate present
We can only think in a language that we master.
If you cannot see it, you will not be it
Loving yourself may seem like the hardest thing to do. But it's the greatest gift you can give yourself. If you're waiting for someone else to do it for you, you're wasting your time.
You should not seek forgiveness after an unkind act. The act was done on purpose. You must first understand why the act occurred and then move forward.
You will not really know where you stand until you have been tested.
self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.
Peace is just around the corner, the only problem is the world is round! (created this on 9-11-01 after the WTC crash.)
Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
Balance is the key to a long and happy life.
But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others.
Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.
The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them.
If we are always pushing away from feelings that we condemn as wrong, painful, or ugly, we are also pushing away from the very energy that can bring us incredible joy and ecstasy.
A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.
I've many reasons why I believe that every individual I meet is a greatness material
Physical nutrition is required to survive but you need to be mentally/emotionally healthy to thrive.
The risks of liberty we must let everyone take
Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.
prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.
Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.
Our bodies are the quanta and our minds are the qualia - together they form a physical entity capable of interaction with many forms in the universe.
Some people will always talk no matter what you do or say
I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part
I think that the great trick in life, wherever you are in the journey, is to do what you love and let the universe support it. When we do what we love, every day is a holiday.
There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth