Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

People don't live a good life when they take themselves too seriously, because they're always concerned about what everybody else thinks.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

I don't really take myself very seriously.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Be positive and laugh at everything.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.

I've never taken myself too seriously.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

I just show up and try to find the joy in every situation.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.