Bertrand Russell Quotes

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

There's more to life than physical and material.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Meditation changes your character.

In focusing towards the outer world, we celebs forget to focus on our inner well-being. We don't lead perfect lives, and only when we learn to have peace with our family members can we have peace in life.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.