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People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be rea...

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How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I ...

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Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-res...

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He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? Ther...

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Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

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Glenn BeckThe Christmas Sweater

I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's...

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Jonathan TropperHow to Talk to a Widower

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define...

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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or sa...

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I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing ove...

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Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you...

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Marianne WilliamsonIlluminata: A Return to Prayer

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay ...

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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t...

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... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change...

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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the r...

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If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself profes...

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Patton OswaltZombie Spaceship Wasteland

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in...

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Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got somethi...

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But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount...

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You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r...

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Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it ...

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Veronica RothSummer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody...

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I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, re...

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Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate sco...

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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the g...

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My dear,In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.In the midst of tears...

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And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think th...

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Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

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Arthur SchopenhauerParerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life....

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You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.

There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made....

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Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that eve...

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Brennan ManningSouvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordina...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwh...

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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in th...

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My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard o...

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Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in th...

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One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.