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Self-hood Quotes
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
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"I was born anew, owner of my own darkness."
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"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."
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"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
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"My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable."
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"People cannot turn you into a foot mat if you clearly know your true self-worth."
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"There is no denial that the lack of self-love conditions many to feel unimportant or irrelevant."
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"You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path."
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"But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too."
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"The most important journey in your life will be the journey to find yourself. To find who you are, to find what you love, is the greatest gift in life. Look at yourself, honestly, and find who you really are. To reveal your true self might be scary but the act of learning who you really are is important to make it possible to live your best possible life."
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"Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity."
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"We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words."
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"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."
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"You are the most important person in your life. Your relationship with yourself defines your relationships with every other person you encounter. Celebrate yourself and celebrate all those around you."
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"The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be."
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"Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents."
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"Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person."
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"YOU are a signature to be dealt with and inspire, only when you move in to your authenticity."
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