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Self-growth Quotes
"Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether."
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"For such a worldly, surly bastard, Bas had always been incredibly innocent. Always seen the best in people."
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"Sometimes love them more than you, but just make sure you love yourself too."
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"The most important relationship in your life should be your relationship with yourself."
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"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it."
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"Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you."
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"Teachable spirit makes you crave for more wisdom and knowledge."
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"If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness."
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"They say you can't change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you " but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it."
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"Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?"
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"We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."
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"Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?"
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"See yourself through your mind's eye being who you want to be, having what you want to have, and doing what you want to do."
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"It's not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time, sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do " you will always see that you're more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance."
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"I wish [that when] I was 12 years old I'd been able to watch a video of my favourite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism - I would have understood it and then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist, because I would have understood what the word means."
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"When you're about to judge, look in the mirror and start."
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"Your life is your responsibility. No one else's."
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"What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos."
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"Your responsibility is simply to find how things work and those who are already successful then model their beliefs, behaviour, attitude, philosophies and actions and you'll get similar results."
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"Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also avoid disgust, both for others and yourself: whatever strikes you as disgusting within yourself is cleansed by the mere fact that you notice it.Avoid fear, too, although fear is really only a consequence of lies. Never be afraid of your petty selfishness when you try to achieve love and don't be too alarmed if you act badly on occasion."
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"Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We are all creatures of our own devising."
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"Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new."
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"Personal growth by tackling the 'big-picture through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful."
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"Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding."
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"I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to."
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"Never settle; if it doesn't feel right, it's not suppose to."
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"Confidence is not a requirement for taking action. It's the result of taking action."
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"Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses."
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"No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer."
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"Smile out loud! Make them wonder."
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"If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside."
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"I was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found."
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"Achieving your goal should always be of secondary importance. Your focus should be on becoming the kind of person deserving of the goal."
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"My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one."
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"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."
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"Don't be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses."
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"You should be able to criticize and evaluate yourself before others do it. Check for congruity between your defined mission, vision, values and your practiced attitude, behaviour and habits."
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"Mastering my mind one thought at a time."
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"Stop focusing on your past mistakes. Don't be ashamed of the things that you've done. We ALL have made mistakes. Don't you see? All of those things helped shape you into the beautiful person that you are today! Hold your head up high because you didn't allow your past mistakes to consume you. You learned! You conquered! You became a better YOU. Be proud of who you are TODAY!"
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"Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount."
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"You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart."
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"Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away."
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"Quit trying to change others. You haven't done such a great job on yourself " yet."
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"Master the chaos within yourself and I promise you, you will gain the strength to withstand any storm."
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"You are the authority and the gatekeeper of your own life."
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"To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook."
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"Have the discipline to listen to and to trust your instincts."
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"I have never consciously boasted myself but from hereon I make a point not to even unconsciously undermine or degrade myself!"
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