Quotes about yourself

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“Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust your angels to catch your wish and bring it to you in a delightfully surprising way.”

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“JACE WAYLAND," she said. "Explain yourself."
Jace was glaring at the cat. "I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabing Judas."
Church rolled onto his back, purring contentedly.”

“When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.”

“I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back.”

“Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself—anyone who thinks that they do is destined for mediocrity.”

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”

“Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.”

“Desi, babe. Still playing your little games, I see. Now why don't you be a good Daimon and show yourself to me? (Kyrian)”

“You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.”

“lies are curses you place on yourself.”

“I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!”

“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”

“That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.”

“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.”

“It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.”

“You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”

“She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”

“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”

“It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”

“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before… to test yout limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.”

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

“When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.”

“I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” “I— I figured it’d be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered.”

“You can't blame anyone else,…, no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.”

“Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising, ' he means 'morally deficient. '" "No, I mean enterprising, " said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done.”

“You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.”

“life is to be lived. if you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

“Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.”

“But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.”

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

“Here's to opening and upward…
and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.”

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.”

“You can’t immerse yourself in something,” Prof said softly, “without coming to respect it.”

“In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.”

“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.”

“If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”

“Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.”

“Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.”

“The corners of his lips curled. “You and your secrets. Ah,, just when I think I’ve solved one mystery about you, up comes another one. I will figure you out one day. Consider yourself warned.”

“If the guy you’re dating doesn’t seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start ‘figuring him out,’ please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find someone that is.”

“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

“If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?”

“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”

“Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years.”

“Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.”

“Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core”

“Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.”

“Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.”

“Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.”

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

“You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.”

“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

“You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.”

“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”

“Zsadist: I didn't make up the rules of this scenario
Wrath: You'll die if you go by yourself.
Zsadist: Well… I'm kind of ready to get off the ride.
Phury felt his skin get tight all over.”

“My answer is: Recognize yourself in others”

“Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness," is the real reason you find it hard to get started. This gumption trap of anxiety, which results from over-motivation, can lead to all kinds of errors of excessive fussiness. You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your own nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your original underestimation of yourself. This leads to more errors, which lead to more underestimation, in a self-stoking cycle. The best way to break this cycle, I think, is to work out your anxieties on paper. Read every book and magazine you can on the subject. Your anxiety makes this easy and the more you read the more you calm down.”

“The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.”

“Above all things, respect yourself.”

“Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

“Mingling with people, hurting them, getting hurt by them…that's how you learn about others…and about yourself. If you don't you'll never be able to care about anyone but yourself.”

“There’s a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you—that both are inherently unfeminist. I don’t agree. There’s no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.”

“You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant.”

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”

“When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.”

“Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.
"Biscuit?" said Simon.
"Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.”

“No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!”

“Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?”

“Seriously? You won’t help me?”
“Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.”

“Neither blame or praise yourself.”

“I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.”

“To love others you must first love yourself.”

“I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.”

“Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.”

“One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.”

“One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”

“If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.”

“In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.”

“Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.”

“I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.”

“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”

“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”

“Belong to yourself.”

“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”

“Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.”

“She is so naked and singular.
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.
Climb her like a monument, step after step.
She is solid.”

“So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.”

“Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)”

“I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.”