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Self Quotes
"Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation."
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"Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch."
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"To grow, be humble and ask questions most of the time. When you do so, a wise and smart person sees him/herself in you and treats you with dignity. On the other hand, if you ask questions and try to learn from a shallow and fool person, s/he treats you with contempt and disrespect. Now, you know who is who..."
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"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,-'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act."
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"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."
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"You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!"
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"A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin."
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"Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion."
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"Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink."
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"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
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"Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: "No. Genius!"
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"What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
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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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"You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability."
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"Adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome. Even in a group, he was slowly perfecting the skill of holding himself separate. It was easier than one might expect; the others allowed him to do it."
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"The never-ending task of self improvement."
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"The self can only be realized, and the realization can only happen, out of personal experience."
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"That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own."
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"LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily."
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"Understand you are neither inferior nor superior, you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them."
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"Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance. You are so beautiful."
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"Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days."
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"Thinking is a Mind driven activity which leads you astray, while Introspection is purely a Soul-connect activity restoring peace & harmony within YOU!"
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"It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is."
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"The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?"
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"Perfection is the lowest standard out there because it is unattainable. Be the best you can but don't try to be someone you were not born to be."
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"It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness."
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"How many of us even know what our default state of being is? Check yours at random times; reset it to positive, grateful, disciplined or faithful. Don't ever let it idle on negative, greedy, lax or doubtful."
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."
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"It is under all circumstances an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, otherwise the repressed elements will only crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, not just at some unimportant point, but at the very spot where we are most sensitive. If people can be educated to see the shadow-side of their nature clearly, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more self-knowledge can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."
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"You are truly as important as everyone else. People's opinions of you will always be irrelevant as long as you keep holding positive beliefs about your life and abilities."
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"Needing to express what it's like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream it all over again."
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"I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles."
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"Never stop being yourself. When you start faking who you are, you start lying to yourself. You can lie about who you are to the people around you, and they may even believe you, but when you lie to yourself something will always feel wrong. You can't fake who you are forever and eventually, you will wear yourself down. This doesn't mean that you must remain the way you are forever. You can change yourself with time and practice. You will feel the difference between true change and fake change. True change requires work. That work is worth it."
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"We only get to receive what we internally give to ourselves through the programming of our internal representations."
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"Even if people say that I don't have a character still I am a well known character. Thanks to all such people for giving me at least some character to begin with."
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"My ability is greater than my disability."
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"To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure."
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