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Self Quotes
"I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying."
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"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."
Self,
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"There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow."
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"Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing something."
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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."
Self,
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"If you do not manage power, it will burn you."
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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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"I've spent so much time these last years wondering what I'm supposed to be. A wife? A lover? A celibate? An Italian? A glutton? A traveler? An artist? A Yogi? But I'm not any of these things, at least not completely. And I'm not Crazy Aunt Liz, either. I'm just a slippery antevasin - betwixt and between - a student on the ever-shifting border near the wonderful, scary forest of the new."
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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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"When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back."
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"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."
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"No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know."
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"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
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"We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are."
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"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
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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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"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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"To find yourself different than others, you must believe,behave and act differently."
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"You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You're already everything you've ever wanted to be."
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"You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens -- you remain the same. Not that you have not tried,not that you have not tried enough, you have tried and tried and tried. And you fail because it is not a question of effort. More effort won't help. It is a question of being alert, not of effort."
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"You can't colour your world with someone's paint."
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"O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy."
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"Decorate yourself with the beauty of love."
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"I' is your own Self, only this much is to be 'realized'!"
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"The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship."
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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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"You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented."
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"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles."
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"First know the Self and then talk of social reformation."
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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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"Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won't be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!"
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"For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight."
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