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"It's hard to see your own face without a mirror"
Phil McGraw, Psychologist
"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more"
Washington Irving, Writer
"If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting"
Julia Roberts, Actress
"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
"Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through"
Germaine Greer, Activist
"I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft"
Eva Green, Actress
"I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself"
Jim Carrey, Actor
"It doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong anywhere"
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author
"The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider"
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author
"Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need"
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author
"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself"
Doug Coupland, Author
"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult"
Louis Nizer, Lawyer
"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you"
Edwin Louis Cole, Author
"Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it"
Doug Coupland, Author
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course"
Michelangelo, Artist
"I've had to relearn how I work with people, so that if and when I do avoid different things, I don't send any messages in doing so"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives"
J. Michael Straczynski, Producer
"None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime"
Gail Godwin, Novelist
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it"
James Truslow Adams, Historian
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind"
James Truslow Adams, Historian
"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers"
Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist
"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image"
Denis Waitley, Writer
"I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective"
Denis Waitley, Writer
"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval"
Denis Waitley, Writer
"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow"
Margaret Fuller, Critic
"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery"
Matthew Arnold, Poet
"As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!"
Loretta Young, Actress
"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done!"
James Dean, Actor
"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency"
Quentin Crisp, Writer
"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another"
William Ellery Channing, Writer
"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent"
William Ellery Channing, Writer
"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do"
William Ellery Channing, Writer
"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do"
William Ellery Channing, Writer
"You only grow when you are alone"
Paul Newman, Actor
"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution"
Bill Hicks, Comedian
"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be"
David Viscott, Psychologist
"As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... You cannot do everything"
Phillips Brooks, Clergyman
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