Mencius Quotes

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

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

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.