"Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem."
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"Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly."
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"I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism."
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"Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love."
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"No one can keep you down except yourself."
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"Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not."
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"All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation."
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"To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence."
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"Skill to do comes of doing."
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"Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason."
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"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."
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"Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory."
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"How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?"
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"Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned."
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"And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings."
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"I never loved another person the way I loved myself."
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"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection."
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"It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do."
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"All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown."
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"Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself."
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