"When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion."
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"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."
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"Respect yourself and others will respect you."
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"Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem."
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"Repect yourself... The rest will follow."
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"(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas."
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"Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life."
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"There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible."
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"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
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"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
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"A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement."
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"There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself."
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"Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem."
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"I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh."
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"It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives."
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"Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval."
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"I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem."
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"If I am not I, who will be?"
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"One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue."
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"When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else."
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