Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

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

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

I am my own heaven and hell!

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

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

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

I'm a nice guy. I'm trying to be positive. I've got my own things, I'm kinda crazy but I'm not trying to hurt anybody. I'm trying to be good and I'm doing the best I can. Just like everybody else.

'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.