Denying Yourself Quotes

• Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Inspirational, Strong

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Loving Yourself, Alive, Divinity

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  Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Struggle, Essence

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• It's really easy to not be satisfied with your work, or people, or anything, but I really embrace the idea of not having to want [anything]. Not because you're denying yourself anything, but because it [everything] is already there.

  Thao Nguyen

  Ideas, People, Want

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• ...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

  Terri Blackstock

  Blessing, Decision, Up To You

  FaceBook post by Terri Blackstock from Oct 18, 2013

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• In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Hate, Reality

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• You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Philosophical, Acceptance

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