Boris Pasternak Quotes

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

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

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

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.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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.

We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

I used to be really wild and dissatisfied and angry and had a journey toward becoming a lady; I think that's with anybody coming into their own power.

Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.