All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies by as if in a dream. Satisfaction in anything--a meal, an interaction, a gift, a sunset--depends on your willingness to take it in. Breathe. Feel your arms and your legs. You are allowed to love every little thing about yourself and your life. You are allowed to take up space and be all that you are. Really you are.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
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