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Self Quotes


"If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own."


"I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments."



"I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell."


"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility."


"It's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that."


"Your personal development is your personal responsibility. No one can study or acquire knowledge for you. There are things only you can do, to bring the change or the results you require to make progress in life."


"Isolation is a way to know ourselves."


"I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon."


"I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."


"Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone."



"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."


"I won't stop until I can look at myself in the mirror in love with the person I see."


"Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself."


"It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves."


"People can say crap. They can think whatever they want, but you control how you feel about it."


"Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!"


"Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible."


"A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know."


"If you want to be great at something, be great at being your most treasured self. Life is about connection, and how can you give apart of yourself to someone; too hold onto, if you don't know which part they want most?"


"Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now, it's frozen shut."


"Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure."



"Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?"


"Stand bloody tall - you're the All."


"I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the "you" that is behind the reality of yourself."


"Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won't be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!"



"What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self."


"Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other."


"Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful."


"The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being."


"Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same."


"And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That's where I am alone, the observer and the observed."


"First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life."


"Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself."


"You can find a better you inside of you. Why don't you search for that?"


"A man would never understand the true meaning of life until he becomes comfortable with his true positive self, despite what others might think or say about him."


"You are not sorry for what you did...you are only sorry for how it turned out for you."



"The self is the only thing you can ever truly know."


"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."


"Increase your self-awareness up to the point where you shouldn't depend on the opinions of others about who you truly are..."
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