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Self Quotes
"Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones."
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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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"Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are."
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"I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are."
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"However she redefined herself, that part of one that made for the core of the self, that part that we think of as the ultimate, inner being-that was ineradicable Scottish. That part spoke with a Scottish voice; that part looked out through Scottish eyes; and it was that part that now welled within her as she gazed out through the window of the descending plane and saw below her the rolling Borders hills."
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"It is Pointless Trying to Impress Someone Who Doesn't Care about You."
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"If you're in a relationship and find yourself constantly using "we instead of "I - stop. You are more than your relationship."
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"As long as you're with you, that's all that matters."
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"I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!"
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"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
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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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"Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!"
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"Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy."
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"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
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"Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills."
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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."
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"You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented."
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"How do you control your telekinesis while intimate with your mate?""I broke a damn lot of furniture at the start, including two beds." A curious glance. "What are you doing?""Traveling around the world."
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"When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren't. Stop focusing on all of the physical features that you think people won't like about you. Stop focusing on your inabilities or lack of talent. Instead, focus on those physical features that you know people already love about you. Focus on your abilities and the talents that you do have. You have been blessed with all of the above, and that makes you worth getting to know in my book."
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"People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!"
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"Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself."
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"The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense."
Self,
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"She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?"
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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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"Stop and think about who you are and where you've come from. Love yourself and comfort your spirit. Don't go wandering the streets looking for love and attention. Self love and respect must be a priority."
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"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what."
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"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison."
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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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"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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"Your imperfections should not stop you from moving towards your dreams. If you wait until you are perfect, or "good enough" your dreams will remain just a dream."
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"We are on a journey not to be perfect, but to be whole."
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"Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give to something other than your own insecurities."
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"The only defense against stupid is distance."
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"One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are."
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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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