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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.
Author: Alice Mary Hilton
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We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
Author: Natalie Goldberg
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
Author: Edward Dahlberg
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A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
Author: David Seabury
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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
Author: George S. Arundale
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
Author: Lynda Hernandez
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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.
Author: Sri Chinmoy
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In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.
Author: Jane Haddam
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God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Author: Meister Eckhart
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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Author: Mme. Roland
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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
Author: David Brown
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Author: Patricia Sampson
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I have just about all I can take of myself.
Author: S. Behrman
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I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Author: Mary Evans
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One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Author: Alain French
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Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.
Author: Jack Gibb
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
Author: Daniel Day-lewis
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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
Author: Julio Cortazar
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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
Author: David Harold Fink
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It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
Author: Jim Courier
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When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
Author: Sir Frederick Browning
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Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.
Author: Eileen Caddy
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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
Author: Philip Massinger
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Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
Author: Jane Taylor
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You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Author: Jerry Gillies
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Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.
Author: George Gurdjieff
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
Author: Hailliard
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Author: Barbara De Angelis
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If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.
Author: Ansari
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Author: Millicent Fenwick
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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Author: Joe Clark
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One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.
Author: James Hagerty
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Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
Author: J. Petit-senn
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Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. - To Neil Armstrong after he landed successfully on the Moon.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.
Author: Charly Heavenrich
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Study to be what you wish to seem.
Author: John Bate
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.
Author: W. K. Hope
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He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Author: Johnson
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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
Author: Claude M. Bristol
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Author: Oliver Cromwell
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.
Author: Bruce Catton
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I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
Author: Mike Piazza
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The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
Author: Clifford Geertz
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Author: James Allen
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