Ricky Martin Quotes

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!

I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.

'Correct' is a song and an exercise for me where I've been able to reclaim who I am and the good that I've done when in real life sometimes I struggle with that.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

You learn to accept your own reality.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Working with the doctors is a fascinating two-way process. I am interested in what they suggest about why I'm the way I am. But if they could make me 'normal', I wouldn't want that. I've been like this for so long, it's what makes me .