"Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."
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"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect."
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"Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained."
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"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
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"Cats invented self-esteem."
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"You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."
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"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
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"Worthiness, in very simple terms, means I have found a way to let the Energy reach me, the Energy that is natural, reach me. Worthiness, or unworthiness, is something that is pronounced upon you by you. You are the only one that can deem yourself worthy or unworthy. You are the only one who can love yourself into a state of allowing, or hate yourself in a state of disallowing. There is not something wrong with you, nor is there something wrong with one who is not loving you. You are all just, in the moment, practicing the art of not allowing, or the art of resisting"
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"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
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"God’s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so valuable that Christ came to redeem us. Not all who hold self-esteem views go so far, but many do."
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions."
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"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
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"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
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"It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'"
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"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
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"The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements."
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"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
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"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here."
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"Never, never, never give up."
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