“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
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Walter Benjamin70
German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892… 1892–1940Related quotes
“To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
"Fifth Talk in The Oak Grove, 11 June 1944" http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=173&chid=4529&w=%22To+understand+oneself+requires+patience%22&s=Text, J. Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 440611, Vol. III, p. 219 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works <br class="br">Context: To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.
“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
Old Mortality (1884).
“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”
Theodor Reik (1888–1969) austrian-american psychoanalytist
“Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness.”
Henry Suso (1295–1366) Dominican friar and mystic
The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant
Context: In the darkness beyond distinct manner of existing, all multiplicity disappears and the spirit loses what is its own. It disappears with regard to its own activity. This is the highest goal and the 'where' beyond boundaries. In this the spirituality of all spirits ends. Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness. To lose oneself forever is eternal happiness
