C. S. Lewis Quotes

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

I came to love, I came into my own.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.