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Being Yourself Quotes (page 45)

This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all. The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember. This... Alice Munro
Margaret Atwood quote: "You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think..."
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. Margaret Atwood
Benjamin Franklin quote: "To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote. Benjamin Franklin
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. Elizabeth Gilbert
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky. Barbara Kingsolver
Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you. Dean Koontz
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still... Annie Dillard
Meg Cabot quote: "Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself."
Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself. Meg Cabot
David Foster Wallace quote: "Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled..."
Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled yourself out of a clinical depression by being a freaking hero. David Foster Wallace
You trap yourself sometimes, by thinking desire and need is love. Love is something far more precious, but something far more fragile. As fragile as one of our tiniest, most intricate, most delicately crafted toys. Hold on to it too tightly, and it will crumble on your fingers, but hold on to it loosely, and the wind might blow it away and shatter it on the cold ground. Listen to the voice comes from your heart, but be absolutely sure the voice comes from your heart. Virginia C. Andrews
Bono quote: "It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing..."
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw. Bono
See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comes–and it will come–remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powers–love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always. Meg Cabot
Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always be sweetness and light. Kate DiCamillo
And when you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer connected with life, why not then continue to look upon it all as a child would, as if you were looking at something unfamiliar, out of the depths of your own solitude, which is itself work and status and vocation? Why should you want to give up a child’s wise not-understanding in exchange for a defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas... Rainer Maria Rilke
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much. Marlon Brando

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