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Self Quotes
"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."
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"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
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"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."
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"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."
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"If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too."
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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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"The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths."
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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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"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself."
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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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"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
Self,
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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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"Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece - you."
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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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"You can't colour your world with someone's paint."
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"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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"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
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"I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't."
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"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
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"I recreate myself, that is my only power."
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"Be your own self. Love what YOU love."
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"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents."
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"I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination."
Self,
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"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."
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"No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake."
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"This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life."
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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."
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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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"Accepting oneself, in all your glory and in all your shortcomings, is a major point in becoming your best possible self."
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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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"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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"A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride."
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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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"As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. We strive to be ourselves. But don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that we can't be firemen, bankers, or doctors - but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal...In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he knows he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important."
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