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Self Quotes
"What do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?"
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"Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in bewilderment and felt my cheeks, my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was, I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wanted to be worthy of the mirror bearer."
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"I'm good at a lot of things," he murmured."
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"Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people."
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"But before you set out to make your mark, you should ask yourself, "For whom will this be done?"
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"Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from,I've got an idea on where I'm going,And with the way things are going,I'm just glad to be me."
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"Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am."
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"The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings."
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"You look like you. Only with the volume turned up."
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"Being authentic means to be who you are, discover your strength and uniqueness, be yourself, even if you are not perfect, and nobody is."
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"I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't."
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"In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique."
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"Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot.Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours."
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"Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: "No. Genius!"
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"If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone..."
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"It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self."
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"There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed."
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"Wherever I go, I meet myself."
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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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"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself."
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"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."
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"The never-ending task of self improvement."
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"Let today be the day you control your emotions. Don't let them get the best of you. Whatever you are feeling right now should not be overwhelming. Don't allow others to dampen your spirit. You are entitled to enjoy peace."
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"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another."
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"Am I weird? Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."
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"Humankind's greatest gift is that we are indeterminate beings. Unlike the tough and leathery seed of an acorn, which will grow into a magnificent oak tree, none of us has a predetermined final configuration of our ultimate essence. Our mental temperament is pliable. We make conscious and subconscious choices that govern who we become."
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"It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is."
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"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."
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"You live in this world once. Let your true and authentic YOU get unleashed. The world is desperately waiting your unique brand unchained."
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"Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance."
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"When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change."
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"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' is your own Self, only this much is to be 'realized'!"
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"How many of us even know what our default state of being is? Check yours at random times; reset it to positive, grateful, disciplined or faithful. Don't ever let it idle on negative, greedy, lax or doubtful."
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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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"Your past isn't there to decide who you are, it's there to guide you to a better version of yourself."
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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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"At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things."
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"From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw."
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"In searching for myself, I have created myself."
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"You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you."
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