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Self Quotes


"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."



"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."
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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."


"To find yourself different than others, you must believe,behave and act differently."


"The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight."
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"The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2) getting curious about the story behind the feelings--what emotions we're experiencing and how they are connected to our thoughts and behaviors."



"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."


"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."


"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."


"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."


"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."


"Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you."


"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."


"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."


"I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young."



"For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious."
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"Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route."


"Understand and value ur minute.God increase my value."


"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone."


"Here's a little secret that's going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person."


"Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you."


"Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate."


"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."


"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then."


"O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy."


"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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"She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.It hurts, because deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often very funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all."


"A gifted person who is born in the world can unleash distinctive qualities about him or herself if he or she is confident enough to reveal his or her own strengths towards everyone."


"As much as I don't want it to be true, the reasons I don't do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something."


"Focusing on who you are, and pursuing opportunities to improve your abilities, allows you to be in acceptance of yourself. This makes you a beautiful person who could care less about what others think of you."



"If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more."


"You want to fix yourself, change yourself, become someone better. But what about who you already are? You want to craft a mask to wear-something to cover your face. But you already have a face. You are already something. Your task, as a human being, is not self-augmentation, but self-discovery. Look at yourself with curiosity. Let yourself explore your interests. Delve into your talents. Face your fears. Accept your faults, and give yourself unconditional love.By learning to explore yourself, you will naturally become the best version of yourself. Of course, you invent your life, but you do not invent your passions. Some things, you must create, and others you must discover.Learn to be curious about yourself. Then, you will be on the right path."


"Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair."
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