Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Quotes

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

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• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Think
  • Self

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Better
  • Destiny
  • Self

• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Knowing

• Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Best
  • Self

• Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Problems
  • Self

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Experience
  • Alone
  • Self

• I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Self

• Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Self

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Party
  • Makeup
  • Self

• I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Mind
  • True

• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Knowing

• I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Anxiety
  • Self

• Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • True
  • Energy

• Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

  

  Kate Horsley
  • Justice
  • Teacher
  • Body

• Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram-- that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Today

• If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Self
  • Knowing