Eknath Easwaran Quotes

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

I was always taught that you don't think you are anything special 'cause there's always someone who is more special than you. Just be the best you that you can be.

I'm just trying to be the best version of me that I can be.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

Focus on making you the best you you can be as an actor and follow your own path. You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

Learn what you are and be such.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.