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Yourself Quotes (page 152)

George Bernard Shaw quote: "Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and..."
Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard. George Bernard Shaw
It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head. Neil Gaiman
Brian Tracy quote: "If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve..."
If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else. Brian Tracy
...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me. Evelyn Waugh
Paulo Coelho quote: "Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow..."
Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. Paulo Coelho
You’re wasting your life being involved with me.” “I’m not wasting anything.” “But I might never recover. Will you wait for me forever? Can you wait 10 years, 20 years?” “You’re letting yourself be scared by too many things,” I said. “The dark, bad dreams, the power of the dead. You have to forget them. I’m sure you’ll get well if you do.” “If I can,” said Naoko, shaking her head. “If you can get out of this place, will you live with me?” I asked. “Then I can protect you from the dark and... Haruki Murakami
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself , either in your first or second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. W. G. Sebald
Tom Robbins quote: "Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at..."
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. Tom Robbins
Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. Annie Dillard
You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is... Annie Dillard
Lee Iacocca quote: "It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into..."
It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. Lee Iacocca
I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't get it. Were you hiding behind a door on morals and ethics day?...You couldn't mother someone if they shot five gallons of estrogen into your veins. James Patterson
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "There is only one journey. Going inside yourself."
There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. Rainer Maria Rilke
S. E. Hinton quote: "You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for..."
You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you... S. E. Hinton
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that... Joss Whedon

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