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Self Quotes
"Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance."
Self,
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"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."
6
"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."
6
"He stood for twenty minutes in the bedding aisle at Target, trying to choose a manly sheet set, then picked the ones with a violet pattern, because he liked violets and who else was ever going to see his sheets, anyway?"
6
"You're not a bad person because you want to be yourself."
6
"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."
6
"Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another."
6
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
5
"The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship."
5
"To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it."
5
"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
5
"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."
5
"It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor."
Self,
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"I recreate myself, that is my only power."
5
"You can't love me if you don't love you, you can't think of nothing to do with me if you can't think of nothing to do with yourself, stop feeling sorry for yourself and tidy up, clean up the apartment until you get a house, do that job until you build your own company. Look at what you have and think on how to make it better."
5
"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."
5
"As long as you're with you, that's all that matters."
5
"No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake."
5
"I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself."
Self,
5
"She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave."
5
"Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!"
5
"You are magnificent and unique. Love yourself and stay unique and you will beautify this world with your unique art of life."
4
"The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight."
Self,
4
"To be great is to be misunderstood."
4
"We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that."
Self,
4
"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
Self,
4
"I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination."
Self,
4
"Without knowing the essential nature of this (referring to the self), we are trying to make a life outside. That is the biggest mistake humanity has made. The first and foremost thing you must know is this (referring to the selfx). Then you can handle the external like a play, without any effort."
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