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Self Quotes
"Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state."
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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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"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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"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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"I'm good at a lot of things," he murmured."
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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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"When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?"
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"When you understand the internal process of life, first time, you realize that the personal identity that you carry in your mind, exists only at the time of momentary experience, and as the experience is forgotten, so the personal identity gets forgotten with it."
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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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"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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"If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am."
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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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"As long as you're with you, that's all that matters."
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"The only defense against stupid is distance."
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"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
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"Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be."
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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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"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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"He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed."
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"Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones."
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"Who am I? is not a question about your job or bank balance. Don't be satisfied with rational or formal answers. Ask yourself seriously and honestly, again and again, and, sooner or later, you'll hear the voice of your soul. The true answer will come to you, breaking through the thick curtain of your ego, which is made up of your name, job, personality, and similar things."
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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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"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
Self,
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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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"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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"Maybe it's NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it."
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"It is Pointless Trying to Impress Someone Who Doesn't Care about You."
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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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"Quit living for the world, live for yourself just you alone because it's starts with you."
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"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."
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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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"My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect."
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"I think for me, beauty is sincerity. I think that there are so many different ways that someone can be beautiful. You know, someone so funny that it makes them beautiful no matter how they look, because they're sincere in it. Or somebody who's really emotional, and moody and thoughtful and stoic, but that makes them beautiful because that's sincerely who they are."
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"If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!"
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"We're built of contradictions, all of us. It's those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I'll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off."
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"Don't ever let anyone bring you down, define who you are or destroy your AWESOMENESS."
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"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
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"If you have heard that I am wild, you can contradict the rumour,(...) I am tame. I am quite tame; I am about the tamest beast that crawls. I drink too much of the same kind of whisky at the same time every night. I even drink about the same amount too much. I go to the same number of public-houses. I meet the same damned women with mauve faces. I hear the same number of dirty stories- generally the same dirty stories. You may assure my friends, Inglewood, that you see before you a person whom civilization has thoroughly tamed."
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"I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert."
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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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