Yourself Quotes
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You know your body. You know when something is wrong. Trust yourself.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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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 your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
