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Self Quotes
"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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"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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"The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone, he is said to have attained the Self."
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"Let us find someone who will never break our heart, who will always be there for us, who will make us happy all the time, who will respect, love and cherish us in everything, and we can't go far in the search because such personality is within us, not in the world we are living now!"
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"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."
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"This was definitely unchartered territory. Iris wasn't like other women. She was tough, sexy but didn't flaunt it, and she sure as hell didn't give a shit about his money. If anything it seemed to bother her. And now she was busy working as a bodyguard for him."
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"Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras used to say that he was in the world in order to admire the sun. And then I have the good fortune to be able to spend my days from morning to night in the company of a man of genius - myself - and it's very pleasant."
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"An empowered sense of self-love means you truly love and accept yourself as you would a treasured lover or a sweet, wonderful child, and that you do this from a place of strength of character and belief in yourself."
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"When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?"
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"To find yourself, be yourself. To get lost in yourself, love yourself unconditionally."
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"A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin."
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"You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore."
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"If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am."
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"Love yourself,love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself."
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"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."
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"We make our lives complicated to prove that we are very intelligent."
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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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"I'd rather listen to what you think of yourself, than what the whole world has to say about you."
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"Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful."
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"Growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination."
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"I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well."
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"My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time."
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"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."
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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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"Fearlessness is not what you do to win, but what you don't do. When you love yourself as much as your God, you won't see other people as the source of your pain. Rather, you will see who you have become because you honestly believed that your chains would be broken through hatred, instead of kindness."
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"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?"
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"When you give your mind, body, and heart the message that you are worth the effort of being conscious, miraculous things start to happen."
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"If you have a fault it is you do not forgive easy!"
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"To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not."
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"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."
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"She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing, this machine for gripping, this fleshy spider on the end of her arm, came to be hers, entirely at her command. Or did it have some little life of its own? She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge."
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"The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you."
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