Chinmayi Quotes

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

A personal code of conduct that you follow is far better than a social code of conduct that you are forced to follow.

I don't mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

A man's got to know his limitations.

I'm pretty good at saying no to things, at discerning between what I'm supposed to do and what I'm not supposed to do.

I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.

I'll go out with my friends or if there's something really amazing I've been invited to, but I won't do that all the time because that's not who I am.