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Self Quotes
"The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it."
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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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"He who is flexible masters the day."
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"Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn't validate your worth."
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"Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you."
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"You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows."
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"It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be."
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"What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection."
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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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"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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"I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match."
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"The most enduring relationship we can have, is the one we have with our self. It is the foundation of everything. Respect for self is the basis for self-love. Value and love yourself with dignity because YOU is the only one you've got. Embrace your strengths and weaknesses- they play a key part in your growth. Joy is important, so make time for yourself, and be your own best friend. You know that you can't change your past but you can take charge of your present. Make peace with your past and keep moving forward. Your self depends on it!"
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"If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too."
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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."
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"Purpose of our journey is to discover the self and to leave the persona behind. The most revered lives are those that can touch and change other lives. Every human has that spark of genius in them and it is only when when you see that in yourself that you will see the genius in others."
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"You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical."
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"Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!"
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"If you do not manage power, it will burn you."
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"As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. We strive to be ourselves. But don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that we can't be firemen, bankers, or doctors - but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal...In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he knows he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important."
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"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."
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"If you forget who you've become remember who you are."
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"Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it."
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"Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?Byron:Make a departure.Gutman:From yourself?Byron:From my present self to myself as I used to be!Gutman:That's the furthest departure a man could make!"
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"Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again."
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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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"When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others."
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"It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others."
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"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier."
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"Confidence, Noun. A condition where one knows what he is good at no matter how much you try to convince him otherwise."
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