Self Quotes - Page 20

• The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.

  Stephen Colbert

  Doubt, Enormous, Ability

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• Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Years, Doctors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• We're all human so of course there are days when I'm feeling insecure. When that happens, I take time to reflect on how far I've come and how far I will continue to go - it helps me feel empowered and self-assured.

  Demi Lovato

  Insecure, Feelings, Helping

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Kind, Advantage, Certain

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

  Chuck Hillig

  World, Illusion

  Chuck Hillig (2007). “Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of who You are”, p.235, Sentient Publications

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• What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Expression, Might, Whining

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• I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Thinking, People, Inspire

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• To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Skins, Prejudice, Would Be

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• resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

  Monica Furlong

  Whole, Resisting, Universe

  Monica Furlong (1986). “Genuine fake: a biography of Alan Watts”, Vintage

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• even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I who deceive them and pretend that I am a rock when I am a river?

  Nina Berberova

  Rocks, Rivers, People

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• The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Deception, Mind, Infinite

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• The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Stupid, Pigs, Hatred

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• In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

  Harold Geneen

  Purpose, World, Crosses

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• I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

  Nancy Mairs

  Ordinary World, People, Satisfaction

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• Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

  Randy Pausch

  Book, People, Wish

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• We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Moving, Two

  "In the Meantime". Book by Iyanla Vanzant, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• [Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

  Diane Arbus

  Gaps, Intention, Effects

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• Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Pride, Vanity, Rejection

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• I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness and well-being. Self-preservation is the first law. I must start trying to obey the law.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Thinking, Law, Worry

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.

  Amit Ray

  Blessing, Rights, Working Together

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• Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

  William H. Prescott

  Enlightened, Interest, Public Good

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• The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

  Jo Coudert

  Confidence, Quiet Moments, Skills

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• There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

  Jo Coudert

  Failure, Stopping, Way

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.70, iUniverse

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• Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.

  Jo Coudert

  Genuine Love, Affirmation, Found

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.158, iUniverse

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• What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Thinking, Light, Anxiety

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.144, iUniverse

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