About Yourself Quotes (page 4)

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• manly
• focus
• doubt

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up. Mitch Albom

• personal
• wonder
• wonderful

The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by... Dean Koontz

• humorous
• waste
• strength

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same. Dan Millman

• thinking
• attention
• attentiveness

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. David Foster Wallace

• lies
• believe
• believe yourself

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. Alan Moore

• thinking you
• thinking
• thoughts

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself. Pat Conroy

• warrior
• good
• forgiveness

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. Cheryl Strayed

• fighting
• nature
• caring

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up. Mitch Albom

• believe
• believe yourself
• saying

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. Cheryl Strayed

• feeling
• bad
• bully

A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them. David Walliams

• joy
• true
• surrender

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore. Cheryl Strayed

• children
• discover
• discovers

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive. Jonathan Franzen

• true
• saying
• anything

Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true Brian Tracy

• night
• tenderness
• troubles

That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself. (Tender is the Night) F. Scott Fitzgerald

• thinking
• personal
• humanity

Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it’s just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to. Jhonen Vasquez