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Self Quotes


"The people who care about you may not tell you your blind spots fearing to offend/hurt you. Open up and ask their feedback and get enlightened."



"Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear."


"I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying."



"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."


"You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark."



"Just be yourself, there is no one better."


"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."


"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."


"No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know."



"Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you."


"You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows."


"I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need."


"Stop changing yourself for the sake of other people. You shouldn't care what strangers think and true friends won't ask you to change."


"Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!"


"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."


"It's only when you find yourself that you will live authentically."


"Your life will always echo your relationship with yourself."


"The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it."


"You're not a bad person because you want to be yourself."


"He who is flexible masters the day."


"Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy."


"We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. *How* we do it is what defines us."


"So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about."


"You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence."


"People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!"


"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."


"I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony."


"When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back."
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