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Self Quotes
"It's amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we're trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt."
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"You could feel hurt and rejected right now but you must know that both pain and rejection are not here to stay. They just passing by and they'll never take away the burning fire that resides in you called desire."
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"Here is a paradox: People who think imperfect are closer to perfection than their counterparts who claim that they're perfect or closer..."
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"Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance."
Self,
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"Every woman with her own makeup!"
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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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"You can't love me if you don't love you, you can't think of nothing to do with me if you can't think of nothing to do with yourself, stop feeling sorry for yourself and tidy up, clean up the apartment until you get a house, do that job until you build your own company. Look at what you have and think on how to make it better."
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"Be your own self. Love what YOU love."
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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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"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."
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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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"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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"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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"The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity: to give the moment whole; whatever it includes. Say that the moment is a combination of thought; sensation; the voice of the sea. Waste, deadness, come from the inclusion of things that don't belong to the moment; this appalling narrative business of the realist: getting on from lunch to dinner: it is false, unreal, merely conventional."
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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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"O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy."
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"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."
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"To be great is to be misunderstood."
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"I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has."
Self,
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"A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride."
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"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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"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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"But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch."
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"That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self."
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"In the history of history, there has never been someone with your particular genetic make-up or life experiences. This being the case, we have no reference points with which to compare ourselves, and therefore it is futile to attempt to measure yourself relative to others."
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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
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"I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin."
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"Every person is attractive to somebody. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Every person is probably ugly to somebody, too. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Don't take it personally.And, we all need to do ourselves a favor. We need to believe people when they tell us we're beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or hunkalicious, especially when that someone is somebody that we think is beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or babealicious.Because you know what? They probably really think so. They probably aren't lying. They probably don't give a damn that you don't look like Pamela Anderson."
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"I recreate myself, that is my only power."
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"Your life will always echo your relationship with yourself."
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