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Self Quotes
"Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want-isn't that life itself? And who-in this damned universe-who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?"
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"I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot."
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"Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind."
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"I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong."
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"The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can't be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you're passionate about. When you let go of what you can't control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance."
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"Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people."
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"If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self)."
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"How much straight forward you are, that much bliss of the Self (Samadhi) will prevail within you."
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"We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out?"
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"Needing to express what it's like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream it all over again."
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"Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All."
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"The one with 'egoism' and 'my-ness' (mamata); the one with the awareness that 'I am the doer'- are all called 'Jiva' [living beings] and he who has attained the realization that 'I am not the doer, I am the Knower-Seer and I am the form of the eternal-bliss', then he is the 'Soul'!"
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"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
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"Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as 'me,' instead of letting 'me' run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death."
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"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"
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"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
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"Your personal development is your personal responsibility. No one can study or acquire knowledge for you. There are things only you can do, to bring the change or the results you require to make progress in life."
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"And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefer to make excuses for them rather than shake them off. We mortals have been endowed with sufficient strength by nature, if only we use this strength, if only we concentrate our powers and rouse them all to help us or at least not to hinder us. The reason is unwillingness, the excuse, inability."
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"Stop living in the shadows of another. You've been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don't be a second rate version of yourself."
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"Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself."
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"You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way."
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"Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me."
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"What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you."
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"Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not."
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"If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are."
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"When you trust yourself, everyone around you will trust you, too."
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"Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness, because happiness is from within."
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"Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past."
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"It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me."
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"I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams."
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