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Self Quotes
"If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him."
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"Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired. Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly, and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire."
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"I'm good at being vague and unpredictable. It's sort of a hard habit to break."
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"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."
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"My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me."
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"What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives."
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"Never apologize for the good in your life. People who try to make you feel badly because you have been blessed are consumed by self-loathing. Wear your accomplishments proudly, be it your career, your relationship, your children, your success. True friends will bask in the glow of your shine, not pray for darkness to fall."
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"No one deserves to rent your heart, especially those who hurt you. Your heart is precious and deserves to store your great memories!"
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"You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed."
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"Here's a little secret that's going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person."
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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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"Focusing on who you are, and pursuing opportunities to improve your abilities, allows you to be in acceptance of yourself. This makes you a beautiful person who could care less about what others think of you."
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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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"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today."
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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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"A man without a filter, is chaos walking."
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"When I was 6 I wanted to be a nurse. When I was 14 I wanted to be a spy or a lion tamer. When I was 16 I wanted too be a highwire walker or an acrobat. Or maybe a clown with a white face. Then I gave up wanting to be anything other than what I am and what I am is a woman with a woman's needs and a woman's desires."
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"For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures."
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"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
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"You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence."
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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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"What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person - you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself."
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"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
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"You begin to understand your personality, your response, and the functions of your body, heart and mind into different situations, events and with different people, with the inward attention."
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"Maybe it's NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it."
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"What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness ofnormality that is just a myth."
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"Trying to fix the shortcoming of others while ignoring your own flaws results in little if no improvement-not to mention bitter feelings. Concentrating on personal growth sets a good example and results in the improvement of one life if not more."
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"You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability."
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