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Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...

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Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self est...

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What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in...

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Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care...

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Queen LatifahPut on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

The problem nowadays is that children have become too much the center of attention. Their parents, t...

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they...

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

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

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Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people

What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world...

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I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where w...

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Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthi...

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Sidney PoitierThe Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but...

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You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, ...

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It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that i...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignora...

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The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Bec...

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Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."He l...

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Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody...

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I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselv...

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I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all ...

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I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped cari...

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The hero acts alone, without encouragement, relying solely on conviction and his own inner resources...

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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the ...

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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.