"Man is not made for defeat."
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"If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'"
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"The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk."
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"If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others."
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"To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone"
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"It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself."
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"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine."
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"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time."
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"The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do."
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"One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief."
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"The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford."
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"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
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"I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me."
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"The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are."
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"I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly."
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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
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"Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!"
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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."
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"Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others."
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"People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something."
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