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Self Quotes


"If you love yourself unconditionally, you would never need anyone to co-sign your true self-worth."


"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."


"It's impossible to love yourself unconditionally without frequently making some time to know yourself better."


"Nothing is more attractive than authenticity."


"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 know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot."


"Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be."


"You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside."


"A person whose desires and impulses are his own-are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture-is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character."


"I may not be beautiful,I may not be tall,I may have no legs,And be hairy and all.I may not be rich,With lifestyle or clothes,I may not tweet,For my arms are too low.I may have warts,An acne or two,I may be incomplete,Compared to all of you.But when I see,The reflection of me,I see someone beautiful,And I know it's me."


"Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind."


"The unconscious mind goes on doing things and creating problems. There is no wall at all that you have to push through. The real thing is that you want to push, you are in a hurry. And because you want to push, you have to imagine a wall. It is your imagination. Just try to laugh at your imagination, at your hurry, because this is not the way meditation happens. Laugh, relax, and just be in the moment " watching whatever is going on, outside or inside, in the world or in the mind. You are neither the world nor the mind. You are behind all, just a pure watching consciousness."


"I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong."


"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."


"If you want to be unique.Just be yourself."


"If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long."


"Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway."


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


"Do not hate someone else's 'shine' but have enough courage to look in the mirror and see the truth for what it is."


"You're my mirror image? No, I don't think so. I'm I. And you're you. & together, we are inseparable."


"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."


"Choose to be the best version of you."


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


"There's only one person to blame for lack of self confidence."


"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."


"You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard."


"Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone."


"Open up and wake up with blazing beauty just remember no one is perfect and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet."


"You know the doubts. You are good enough. You are important. You are worthy. You are kind. You are all you need to be. You are love."


"When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?"


"In order for your wit to be appreciated, the people around you need to be witty, too. In order for your lightness of being to be appreciated, those around you must be vibrating towards the same weightlessness. In order for your beauty to be appreciated, those around you must have eyes that see beauty. For your authenticity to be appreciated, those who see it must also be authentic. For your humility to be appreciated, those you are dealing with must first know humility in their hearts. You see, you have spent too much time trying to be appreciated by those who are not good enough to appreciate you. That's the truth. Those who are better than they, will see you for the beauty that you are."


"We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out?"


"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."


"One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully."


"When we come in contact with our true self, we stop trying to be someone else. We fall in love with it and embrace it with all its flaws :-)"


"There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection."


"Needing to express what it's like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream it all over again."


"As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agreewith my constitution. Probably I should not consciously and deliberatelyforsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands ofme, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a likebut infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preservesit."


"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."


"Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All."
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