Huston Smith Quotes

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Human improvement is from within outward.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Everyone's the hero in their own story. You've lived your life. You're the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show.

I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"