If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.
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If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
If you ever start to feel good about yourself... _x000D_ .... they have this thing called the internet.
. . . the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing.
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.
You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.
When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you dont have these questions about yourself like middle -- class women do.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
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