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Self-growth Quotes
"She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it."
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"Everything can be achieved through gradual steps " one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is."
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"The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves. Am I better than I was yesterday? This is the only question worth asking. As long as you go to bed at night a better practitioner than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded. Your worth should have nothing to do with how your progress stacks up relative to another."
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"Look at mirror! What do you see in you? Do you see someone who can't amount anything in life or do you see a unique human being that was born to dream and conquer the world."
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"Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue."
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"Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going."
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"The farm is a base of operations"a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in self-development. I think a person has to be withdrawn into himself to gather inspiration so that he is somebody when he comes out again among folks"when he "comes to market' with himself. He learns that he's got to be almost wastefully alone."
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"I am learning to accept everything about myself,even the part of me that struggles to accept everything about myself."
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"You have been "self-pitying" for long years now and things don't seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming and you'll see things taking a better shape!"
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"Focus on your potential not your past."
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"I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work."
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"Big people never scare me. I am a little man. I can easily hide."
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"The trip doesn't exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears, so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to harass and plague you wherever you wander on land or on sea. Does it surprise you that running away doesn't do you any good? The things you're running away from are with you all the time."
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"As long as you are still breathing, you definitely haven't reached your highest potential on earth. Always challenge yourself to do better."
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"If you wish to renew your mind, read."
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"Today be more excellent than demanded. And more generous than expected."
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"Never, never, never give in!"
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