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Self Quotes
"What do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?"
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"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
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"I'm me," she whispered. "Me"Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exactly what she meant."I'm me. I'm not their daughter. I'm not Nel. I'm me. Me."Every time she said the word me there was a gathering in her like power, like joy, like fear. Back in bed with her discovery, she stared out the window at the dark leaves of the horse chestnut."Me," she murmured. And then, sinking deeper into the quilts, "I want... I want to be... wonderful. Oh, Jesus, make me wonderful."
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"Each one of us is selfish, including me."
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"...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you."
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"The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire."
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"Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills."
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"Nothing is more attractive than authenticity."
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"Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want-isn't that life itself? And who-in this damned universe-who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?"
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"Your heart has a deeper intelligence than your mind ever will."
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"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?"
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"The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can't be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you're passionate about. When you let go of what you can't control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance."
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"I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them."
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"Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside."
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"At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things."
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"Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be."
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"Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again."
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"Everyday my life gets better and better. I make loving, life affirming choices daily to create an amazing life."
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"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
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"You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way."
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"Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind."
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"Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness, because happiness is from within."
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"Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence."
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"I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language."
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"If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system necessitates; but the result will obviously not be the understanding of myself."
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"You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him."
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"The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it."
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"If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with."
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"Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means."
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"Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries."
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"The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides."
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"The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin."
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"We are constantly invited to be what we are."
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"Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in bewilderment and felt my cheeks, my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was, I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wanted to be worthy of the mirror bearer."
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"Improve your being, and the understanding of life will come to you; and then with the understanding, do, be or achieve whatever you want out of your life."
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"I suppose even a simple slogan can be twisted into whatever shape we want, like a balloon animal-we can even make it loop back around on itself, becoming a noose. In the end, the measure of who we are can be seen in the shapes of our balloon animals."
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"Stick on your originality, yes I know few people will call you a boring person but millions will fall in love with you because of your authenticity."
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"I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad."If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself."He nods in understanding."And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?"I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you."
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