Quotes about Self-realization

The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are. We unconsciously live someone else's life, or at least someone else's expectations for us. This does violence to ourselves, our relationship with God, and ultimately to others.

Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with sound self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.

Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind.

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.

A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realisation and successful achievement.

To begin with, you have to grasp the fact that Christian virtue isn't about you—your happiness, your fulfillment, your self-realization. It's about God and God's kingdom, and your discovery of a genuine human existence by the paradoxical route—the route God himself took in Jesus Christ!—of giving yourself away, of generous love which constantly refuses to take center stage.