About Yourself Quotes - Page 7

• Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Taught, Now And Then

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• The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Liars

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.

  Adele

  Beauty, Thinking, Keys

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• You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Asks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.189, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Jobs, Soul

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• The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

  Mitch Albom

  Fighting, Mountain, Care

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• Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

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  Sherry Argov

  Believe, Don't Believe

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart”

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• In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

  John Green

  Cute, Baby, Reading

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

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• sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

  Mitch Albom

  Missing, Way, Sometimes

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

  Beryl Markham

  Dog, Loneliness, Book

  Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• I think if you were to talk to women who have run, both successfully and unsuccessfully, nearly all of them would say, "You learn so much." You learn about yourself, what you're capable of doing.... And it doesn't have to all happen when you're young - I mean, one of the most powerful women in American politics is Nancy Pelosi. She had five children. She didn't go into politics until her youngest child was in high school.... That's one of the great things about being a woman in today's world: You have a much longer potential work life than our mothers or our grandmothers did.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Running, Children

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• When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

  Jodi Picoult

  First Love, Love Is, Care

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Hands, Luck

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

  Pat Conroy

  Thinking, Special, Knows

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.139, Random House

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• If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

  Lori Lansens

  Like Something, Ifs

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Wife's Tale”, p.176, Knopf Canada

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• You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Decision, Needs, Littles

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

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• Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

  Steve Kluger

  Fall, Facing The Truth, Pulling

  Steve Kluger (2009). “Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel”, p.158, Zondervan

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• You know everything and you know nothing… And in that there’s this: You will always learn something new. About him. About her. About yourself. And in learning the bad, the uncomfortable, the messy- it’s what you take away that counts. What will you do with that knowledge? Will you leave? Pull tighter? Ignore it? Use it to fall in love even deeper? That’s when you learn more about yourself.

  Pamela Ribon

  Falling In Love, Use, Something New

  Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Clubs, Knows

  "Fight Club". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Past, People, Rorschach

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite

  Rick Riordan

  Perfect, Trying, Fit

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• So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Men, Blue, Names

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2009). “Natural Born Charmer”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Third Person, Starting, Persons

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Confused

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• The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Grateful, Boys

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1422, Bantam

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