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Self Quotes
"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
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"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone."
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"You're lonely, they say,but it doesn't scare me anymorefor it teaches me,and maybe that's the biggest win from these years:I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,like I always thought I would.I don't break mirrors anymore,like I always thought I would. I can finally stand myself,and I never thought I would."
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"I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me."
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"Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves."
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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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"I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself."
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"Who am I? is not a question about your job or bank balance. Don't be satisfied with rational or formal answers. Ask yourself seriously and honestly, again and again, and, sooner or later, you'll hear the voice of your soul. The true answer will come to you, breaking through the thick curtain of your ego, which is made up of your name, job, personality, and similar things."
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"Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves."
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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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"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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"When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid."
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"Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense."
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"Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves."
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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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"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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"Just be yourself, there is no one better."
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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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"When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back."
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"In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we've lived with the longest, we still don't know very well-ourselves."
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"No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know."
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"The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed."
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"No. You stop. Stop thinking you're the son your father disowned. 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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"I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me."
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"You can't colour your world with someone's paint."
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"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
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"The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight."
Self,
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"We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that."
Self,
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"Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state."
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