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Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

I’m a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that’s not what I think of as sexy.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm ...

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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And ...

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A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. ...

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I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the r...

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He will be a small man inside," said Mma Ramotswe. "He will feel small and unimportant. That is why ...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

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Alfie KohnThe Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

God is within you, open your heart and uncover that godliness.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and cel...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beauti...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is ...

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I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It...

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Amy TanThe Kitchen God's Wife

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take y...

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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they...

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Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifti...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtu...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Greek Interpreter

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...

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When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

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As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your h...

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Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to you...

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Ayn RandThe Night of January 16th

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

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Ayn RandThe Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens wh...

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I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy f...

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Bell hooksSisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psycho...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite o...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than...

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I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

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Byron KatieI Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love

I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through m...

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You know men. We have delicate egos.""I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.""No, Jace is sort ...

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I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank ...

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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over fo...

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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be...

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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi...

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Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But th...

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The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invi...

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I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 ...

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Each one of us is the architect of his own fate; and he is unfortunate indeed who will try to build ...

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One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

A good general rule is that self-esteem for its own sake turns out to be much worse than merely rein...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to t...

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Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remark...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these...

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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do...

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because...

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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether pe...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...

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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ...

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I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, ...

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We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and re...

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This is what I find myself writing to myself on the page:I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you n...

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I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God kno...

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than t...

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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not bea...

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Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the bas...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't ex...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition ...

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I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea...

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life...

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Irvin D. YalomLove's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces...

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Maybe just being me was enough to be loved. I wasn't giving myself any credit.Now I knew that I h

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for w...

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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you ar...

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My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregna...

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Once Ed said to me, "For a very long time I didn't like myself." It was not said in self-pity but si...

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John SteinbeckThe Log from the Sea of Cortez

Just be yourself -- it's the only way it can work.

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike pur...

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When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one h...

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I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know ...

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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.