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Self Quotes
"I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out."
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"You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been."
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"I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and just as complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with."
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"Let today be the day you control your emotions. Don't let them get the best of you. Whatever you are feeling right now should not be overwhelming. Don't allow others to dampen your spirit. You are entitled to enjoy peace."
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"Your true self is enough. There is no need to be better than everyone else around you to be happy. True happiness comes when you are in harmony with yourself and no longer feel the need to one-up other people. Make healthy decisions, pursue your passions, and live your truth, do it all for you."
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"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."
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"Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive."
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"When I've lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need I already possess ' deep inside. I am naturally creative, resourceful and whole. If I consult my invisible compass, I'll know what to do."
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"Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people."
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"Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :("
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"Bring your reality to life by mining the intuitive abilities of your heart."
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"It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy."
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"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
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"We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others."
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"I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice."
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"People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention."
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"Everything that you want in life, is possible. But the reflection in the mirror will always show who is reflecting. One can't change the reflection without changing himself."
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"If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are."
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"For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight."
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"I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing."
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"Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are."
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"You can't go around feeling too much."
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"If you live your life to please others, sometimes you neglect yourself. You deserve happiness. You deserve peace. You deserve love and respect. Don't get caught up and deprive the very essence of you."
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"This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it."
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"I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action."
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"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."
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"The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago.I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistakeme again."
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"We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries."
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"There is no one in the world that can best understand you the way you understand yourself. It only take you to make the best of you."
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"My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix."
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"I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I concluded it would be a waste of labour. "Doubtless," though I, "she is some stiff old maid ; for though the daughter of Madame Reuter, she may well number upwards of forty winters; besides, if it were otherwise, if she be both young and pretty, I am not handsome, and no dressing can make me so, therefore I'll go as I am." And off I started, cursorily glancing sideways as I passed the toilet-table, surmounted by a looking-glass: a thin irregular face I saw, with sunk, dark eyes under a large, square forehead, complexion destitute of bloom or attraction; something young, but not youthful, no object to win a lady's love, no butt for the shafts of Cupid."
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"If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you."
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"Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being."
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"Introspect.You know yourself more each day,Yet, you find out how little you know yourself too."
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"Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from,I've got an idea on where I'm going,And with the way things are going,I'm just glad to be me."
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"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
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"You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart."
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