Quotes about yourself

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“God is Good… Jesus is Lord
Be Good to Yourself and each Other
J-Jesus.. O-Others.. Y-Yourself”

“Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction”

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

“No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)”

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

“I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.'
Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.”

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”

“Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.”

“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

“Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.”

“Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”

“The ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. ‘You’re always the voice of reason. Just try listening to yourself once in a while.”

“Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone… not even to ourselves.”

“If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”

“Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”

“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”

“You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne

"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”

“People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.”

“Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved?
-Lena Kaligaris”

“The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.”

“Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with
a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better”

“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”

“Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself”

“The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”

“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”

“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”

“Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.”

“If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.”

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.”

“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”

“In order to love people usefully you need to be focused on them and not yourself.”

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, “What was I thinking,” breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, “What was I learning?”

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

“And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!”

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.”

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”

“Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?”

“The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”

“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”

“Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off”

“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”

“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”

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

“Hey, Fnick can I change the channel, the game's on." -Iggy

"Make yourself at home, FIGGY" -Fang”

“That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."
"I am," said Pooh.”

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.”

“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.”

“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.”

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”

“Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.”

“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”

“Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?”

“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes… and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.”

“You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.”

“When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.”

“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”

“You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.”

“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”

“Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.”

“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”

“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.”

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”

“Preach the gospel to yourself every day.”

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?… Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

“you're only yourself when no ones watching!”

“Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

“It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”

“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”

“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”

“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that
doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”

“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

“Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.”

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

“It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.”

“A disciple… can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”

“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”

“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework — you can still be writing, because you have that space.”

“Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.”

“If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.”

“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”