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Self Quotes
"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."
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"I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young."
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"She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be."
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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 have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark."
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"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."
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"I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person..."
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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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"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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"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."
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"If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more."
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"No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake."
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"Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear."
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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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"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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"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,
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"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
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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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"I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get."
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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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"Understand and value ur minute.God increase my value."
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"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
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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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"You're not a bad person because you want to be yourself."
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"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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"Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be."
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"Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece - you."
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"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final."
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"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
Self,
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"To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it."
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"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?"
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"I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination."
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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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