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Self Quotes
"You're not who he expected you to be, that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely."
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"Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he'd been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering and useful for cutting glass, they shine with reflected light only. They're no use at all in the dark."
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"Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece - you."
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"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
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"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
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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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"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone."
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"The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it."
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"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."
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"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."
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"No. You stop. Stop thinking you're the son your father disowned. You're not who he expected you to be, that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely."
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"He who is flexible masters the day."
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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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"You can't colour your world with someone's paint."
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"The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight."
Self,
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"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."
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"I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?"
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"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
Self,
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"Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!"
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"Understand and value ur minute.God increase my value."
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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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"Maybe I'm not the hero to her I've always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she doesn't even need a hero. Why would she? She has someone so much stronger than I'll ever be for her. She has herself."
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"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?"
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"You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you."
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"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."
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"When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid."
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"We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that."
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