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Self Quotes
"You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark."
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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
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"So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts."
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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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"There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows."
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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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"Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves."
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"He who is flexible masters the day."
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"You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history."
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"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."
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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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"Forgive and set your self free. When we forgive, we heal our own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for our heart."
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"The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed."
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"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."
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"No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake."
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"Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you."
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"I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself."
Self,
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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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"When I was 6 I wanted to be a nurse. When I was 14 I wanted to be a spy or a lion tamer. When I was 16 I wanted too be a highwire walker or an acrobat. Or maybe a clown with a white face. Then I gave up wanting to be anything other than what I am and what I am is a woman with a woman's needs and a woman's desires."
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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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"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."
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"People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!"
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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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