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Self Quotes
"Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!"
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"Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise."
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"I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share."
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"I' is Absolute, it has been possessed by the ghosts of 'my'!"
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"And then I decided to be pro me. Be pro you to the end. No more cutting up myself and serving up myself like pieces of a pie for everyone's tasteless palates. And that doesn't mean you don't know how to say sorry; because being pro you means being pro growth and pro improvement. When I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong and I say that I'm wrong. And that's how I know I'm right!"
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"If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU."
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"There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one's own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won't these faults have to be broken?"
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"I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can."
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"Don't do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident 'you' with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are 'you'. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough."
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"The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one. In fact, just the opposite is true."
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"Who are you? What are you? Why are you?"
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"Always be true to yourself, you matter the most."
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"Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras used to say that he was in the world in order to admire the sun. And then I have the good fortune to be able to spend my days from morning to night in the company of a man of genius - myself - and it's very pleasant."
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"To find yourself, be yourself. To get lost in yourself, love yourself unconditionally."
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"Appreciate yourself for who you're not for what you're."
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"You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life."
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"Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am."
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"Who am I?'- Not knowing this is the greatest death to the Soul (one's own self)!"
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"Hello! Look at me! I am your reflection."
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"I recognize my gifts and optimize them. I accept my total being and honor all parts of myself."
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"Fearlessness is not what you do to win, but what you don't do. When you love yourself as much as your God, you won't see other people as the source of your pain. Rather, you will see who you have become because you honestly believed that your chains would be broken through hatred, instead of kindness."
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"It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self."
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"One of the salient facts of a self is that a person is constantly undergoing a series of actions in the immediacy of time that they must later reflect upon and synthesize new experiences, thoughts, feelings, and mental impression along with their latent memories into a collaborative sense of being."
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"Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture."
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"One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time."
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"Unless there is a 'clear evident experience of the True Self' [spasthvedan], till then 'Principle' cannot be attained."
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"It is very wise to spend some quiet time alone getting to know your true positive self better, far before you start to surround yourself with people."
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"Today I began to criticise myself and look at myself with a judgmental eye... but then instead of going all out in that direction, I stopped and I began to understand me. And then I began to be patient with me. And then I began to feel a softness in the middle of my chest. So then I concluded that I can understand and be patient with me, just like how I am always understanding and being patient with everyone else. Why? Because I deserve that, and more."
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"Define yourself before someone does it for you."
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"Nothing is more important than you,so don't fear or feel stress, whatever you do."
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"Why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture."
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"You are fine just the way you are. Don't allow anyone to reduce you to a state of inferiority. God created us all in His own image. Therefore, there is absolutely nothing inferior about you."
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"Decorate yourself with the beauty of love."
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"Embrace your imperfections.Fancy your flaws.Flaunt your blemishes.Adore your birthmarks.Laugh off glitches.Discuss your setbacks.Don't call your mistakes 'Regrets'Call them 'Lessons"
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"Self-knowledge is the foundation stone of every principled person, and any changes of a person's mutable character commences with an extensive course of self-evaluation. Personal evolution is a product of the independent choices we make. Progress in the development of oneself depends upon how honestly a person judges oneself, and what corrections a person makes to align their character with an ideal version of a self."
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