"It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself."
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"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing."
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"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."
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"Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men."
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"About all you can do in life is be who you are."
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"I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy."
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"A better you means a better universe."
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"The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself."
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"Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything."
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"We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else."
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"As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery."
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"We are the hero of our own story."
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"I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life."
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"If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look."
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"Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others."
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"Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body."
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"Honor is self-esteem made visible in action."
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
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"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
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"A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us."
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