Quotes about yourself

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“When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.”

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

“You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself”

“That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.”

“There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.”

“Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?”

“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

“You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.”

“Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.”

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”

“If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.”

“When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.”

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.”

“Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”

“When life sucks, throw yourself into art.”

“Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself”

“Alec said you do that," said Jace. "Deflect questions about yourself with jokes.”

“Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.”

“Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself”

“Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.”

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

“if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.”

“It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”

“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values….”

“At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”

“You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.”

“Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.”

“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”

“When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”

“Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself.”

“Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?"
"It's my job."
"It's aof your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose.”

“If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.”

“Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.”

“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”

“Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier."
"You're welcome," he whispered back.”

“Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.”

“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate”

“Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.”

“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.”

“I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.”

“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.”

“How to defend yourself against a banana”

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

“Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.”

“Always listen to yourself… It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.”

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”

“He should accept me as I am!” says the woman who is too nice.
Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you
madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a
doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.”

“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.”

“Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

“[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go…. Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)”

“I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.”

“Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.”

“The next time you face a room full of strangers… you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.”

“To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.”

“How do you make yourself not like someone?”

“Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.”

“We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.”

“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”

“Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it…”

“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”

“Just be yourself and you'll be fine”

“I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.”

“Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”

“Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”

“Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

“If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.”

“Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself."
"Why?" I said.
"If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.”

“Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.”

“Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.”

“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.”

“I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.”

“I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.”

“Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”

“We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not the
one.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.”

“Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.”

“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

“The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.”

“What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.”

“I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.”

“He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.”

“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

“He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.”

“If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.”

“To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man."”

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

“I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.”

“I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”

“Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.”

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”