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Self Quotes
"I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum."
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"If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways-not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways."
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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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"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles."
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"We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion."
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"Stop living in the shadows of another. You've been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don't be a second rate version of yourself."
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"Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself."
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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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"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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"It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant."
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"Love yourself and that is all the love you need."
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"Sometimes I act like I have my shit together more than I do. Sometimes I act like I don't have my shit together as much as I do. I'm done acting. I'd rather just be okay with however together my shit is at the time, and still do my best to show up, as I am."
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"What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you."
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"Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority - it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney - for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination - over other people."
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"Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me."
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"A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know."
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"Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not."
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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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"Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness, because happiness is from within."
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"Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave."
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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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"Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure."
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"I am because I feel."
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"Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?"
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"There are two types of women- the type that makes a man feel like he is the best and the type that makes a man feel like becoming a better man. And then I suppose it is all up to the man and what he wants in life- whether he wants to go through life feeling like he is the best or if he wants to go through life becoming better and better. In reality, we are all at our worst when we have ceased the process of become better and better."
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"But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein."
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"Not once in her life had Darcy wanted to thumb her nose at danger and rip the clothes off a man, but she was contemplating that very thing."
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"Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's."
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"Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others."
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"Good or bad, if you're not "normal, you can't have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently."
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"Love yourself and the beauty of your uniqueness."
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"Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other."
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"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties."
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"Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful."
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"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
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"The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being."
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"Quotation confesses inferiority."
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"What do I believe that I deserve in this life?"
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"Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it."
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"If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly."
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"I have tried everything except being myself!"
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