Self Quotes
For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.
If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.
Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
he placed his handson my mindbefore reachingfor my waistmy hipsor my lipshe didn't call mebeautiful firsthe called meexquisite - how he touches me
I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.I shone because I thought you loved me...
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.
Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.
To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.
I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.
LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
Never let fear hold you captive. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Never let frustration hold you captive.
Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!
Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
Dupa ce iti omori demonii, daca ai curajul sa o faci, e musai sa te intorci pe acelasi drum.
Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT?
