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Self Quotes


"If you can fix yourself you can fix the problem===the cure u need is somewhere within you."


"Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward."


"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."


"No one else can stop us from loving ourselves, just as no one else is to blame when we don't. I promise to stop blaming your for everything I don't like about myself."


"Create new daily choices to embrace that you are good enough and you are worthy enough, just as you are, right now."


"I became to understand you and all of you."



"I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead."


"Beauty is not about make up it's about what it makes you to be from within."


"Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people."


"You are the sole owner of your heart, so be careful of whom you give access to."


"I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous."


"A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down."


"You look like you. Only with the volume turned up."


"Being authentic means to be who you are, discover your strength and uniqueness, be yourself, even if you are not perfect, and nobody is."


"Only you can make yourself happy or miserable regardless of your daily experiences."


"We each act as the creator of the self, and therefore, we strive to attain self-realization by understanding what we were in various stages of life including what we began as and what we transmuted into becoming."


"If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone..."


"But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?"


"You can always hold out for something better when you know your self worth."


"Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give to something other than your own insecurities."


"Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it."


"If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness."


"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?"


"Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted."



"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."


"Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance."


"There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you'll be dazzled by it. But it's nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within."


"We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die."


"I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable."


"May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself."



"A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand."


"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."


"You're beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights."


"Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."


"The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind."
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