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Yourself Quotes (page 146)

Peter Shaffer quote: "The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other..."
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. Peter Shaffer
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. Socrates
I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces. Jodi Picoult
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams
Anthony Kiedis quote: "t's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.. it's so lonely."
t's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.. it's so lonely. Anthony Kiedis
I'm not saying I'm able to work consistently out of the premise, but it seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved. David Foster Wallace
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed. Stanley Kunitz
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise. Anthony de Mello
Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot. Michael Chabon
Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to the passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jodi Picoult quote: "The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you..."
The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself. Jodi Picoult
Nina Simone quote: "This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live..."
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it. Nina Simone
You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside. Mark Haddon
Chelsea Handler quote: "Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself."
Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself. Chelsea Handler
John Adair quote: "integrity means both personal wholeness and adherence to..."
integrity means both personal wholeness and adherence to values outside yourself - especially goodness and truth John Adair

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