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Self Quotes
"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
Self,
40
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
40
"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
40
"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
40
"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."
40
"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
40
"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."
40
"Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece - you."
40
"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."
39
"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."
39
"Accepting oneself, in all your glory and in all your shortcomings, is a major point in becoming your best possible self."
39
"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself."
39
"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."
39
"People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are."
39
"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."
38
"I recreate myself, that is my only power."
38
"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."
38
"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."
38
"You can't colour your world with someone's paint."
38
"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."
37
"Be your own self. Love what YOU love."
37
"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."
37
"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."
37
"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,
36
"I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying."
36
"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."
36
"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."
36
"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison."
36
"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."
36
"Just be yourself, there is no one better."
36
"The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it."
36
"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."
36
"No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know."
36
"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,
35
"I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination."
Self,
35
"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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