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Self Quotes
"Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate."
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"Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves."
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"The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship."
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"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
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"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."
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"She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be."
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"People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are."
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"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else."
Self,
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"Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense."
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"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
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"They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity."
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"We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are."
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"To find yourself different than others, you must believe,behave and act differently."
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"But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices."
Self,
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"Purpose of our journey is to discover the self and to leave the persona behind. The most revered lives are those that can touch and change other lives. Every human has that spark of genius in them and it is only when when you see that in yourself that you will see the genius in others."
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"What is true for you?What makes your heart smile?When do you feel most yourself?What do you love to do?Ask yourself these questions, and live your life, as best you can,in accordance with the answers.This is how you taste happiness.This is how you love yourself. This is how you grow."
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"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
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"If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it."
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"So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts."
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"When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back."
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"You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day."
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"There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows."
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"You're not who he expected you to be, that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely."
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"Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you."
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"Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he'd been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering and useful for cutting glass, they shine with reflected light only. They're no use at all in the dark."
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"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."
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"You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark."
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"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone."
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"I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony."
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"If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding."
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"Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you."
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"The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it."
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