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Self-improvement Quotes
"Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done."
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"We are growing day by day as we are continuously striving for excellence in life."
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"If you can't remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you're overdue."
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"For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind.But finally, finally, I have learned to break free."
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"I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple."
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"A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it."
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"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project."
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"There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships."
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"One positive idea can solve the situation you in, can make a massive difference and change your life forever."
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"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
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"There is nothing wrong to be angry because anger is the part of our natural being. But we should avoid to dwell on it because it could lead to resentment which is not good for anyone, we just have to control it before it control us. As the bible says, 'In your anger do not sin.' 'Do not let the sun go down while you still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold."
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"There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly."
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"Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again."
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"Find out your talents and gifting and invest your whole time into perfecting them and becoming the best of yourself."
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"Regardless of your upbringing or formative experiences, it is never too late to start believing in yourself."
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"Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind."
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"I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure."
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"Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained."
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"Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones."
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"If you want to be among the few who rule the world, you, therefore, must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by. The target of life and the idea of life is that every time must be converted into something."
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"Daily reading is vital for own self development."
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"Authenticity is the seed of your identity and you can't go wrong with it in life."
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"All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself."
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"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future."
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"And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned."
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"May you begin living beyond."
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"You can't be much good to others, if you're no good to yourself."
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"I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else."
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"The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the gold of what we can be and really are."
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"Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You may make mistakes but you have to remember that doing so will lead to change. Be willing to learn from experiences, grow and live to become better not bitter."
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"When you believe in yourself it is easier not to take criticism, knock-backs and disappointments personally."
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"A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking."
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"It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That's the most you can ever do."
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"People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head."
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"How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day."
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"Instead of complaining about your situation, actually do something about it. Playing 'poor me' just ain't sexy."
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"Those who with high self esteem makes deep and lasting connections with their own unique way to make all the difference in the world."
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"It's misleading or deceptive in a way that such skills are learned like any other - simple practice, sincere investment over time. Yes, like small steps, one at a time, to cross the bridge. Just a single step today."
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"We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know."
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"Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you know you can while others dare to prove otherwise! Mind your business and make the strike."
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"No matter what situations you experience in life, think about them as you draw conclusions about what the situations means for you."
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"Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won't feel like your first."
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"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong."
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"Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard."
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"In the quest for a functional and direct interaction between imagination and reality, and the evolution of them both, there is in place a natural resistance, which I have referred to as Creative Resistance, because it demands just that: creativity. Much of this calls for redefining, or refining, one's relationship with time, and all the qualities and skills that will only come from engaging time more creatively and effectively. As such, part of the bargain is about acquiescing to a rhythm that is subtler and has more definite purpose to it than one's subjective preferences."
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"It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it."
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"With increased self-awareness comes focus... We become selective. We refrain from jumping to grab every opportunity that comes on our way..."
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"Be yourself, be who you can be."
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"It's your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered."
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