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#1

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, fear, life, love

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#2

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#3

“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: expectations, humor

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#4

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”
― Patricia McCormick, Cut

tags: cutting, disappointment, expectations, hope, life, strategy

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#5

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: self-worth

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#6

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: discrimination, humor, self-assurance, self-worth

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#7

“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: honesty, humanity, self-worth, social-mores

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#8

“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
― Malcolm X

tags: freedom, self-worth

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#9

“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: inspirational, relationships, self-worth

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#10

“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.”
― Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater

tags: self-worth

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#11

“You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, living-life-to-the-fullest, loving-life, self-love, self-value, self-worth, the-value-of-life, valuing-life, valuing-oneself

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#12

“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
― Brian Tracy

tags: life, self-worth, wisdom

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#13

“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

tags: fame, independence, self-worth

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#14

“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
― Dr. Asa Don Brown

tags: counsel, counsellor, counselor, humanity, joy, kindness, love, peace, psychological, psychology, self-esteem, self-talk, self-worth, spiritual-indwelling, spiritual-life, spirituality

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#15

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#16

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility

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#17

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: personal-responsibility

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#18

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: personal-responsibility, self-determination

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#19

“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
― Barbara De Angelis

tags: honesty, integrity, personal-responsibility, truth-telling

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#20

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
― Confucius

tags: personal-responsibility, self-assessment, self-determination

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#21

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: personal-responsibility, self-empowerment

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#22

“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, masculinity, personal-responsibility

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#23

“This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.”
― Natalie Goldberg

tags: personal-responsibility

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#24

“The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding.”
― Lorii Myers

tags: inspirational, motivational, personal-responsibility, positive-thinking, self-improvement, success

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#25

“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”
― Milan Kundera, Encounter

tags: argument, close-mindedness, hypothesis, open-mindedness

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#26

“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”
― Brooks Atkinson

tags: close-mindedness, experience, inexperience, open-mindeness, perspective, point-of-view

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#27

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind

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#28

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: fools, humility

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#29

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#30

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: complaint, condemnation, criticism, fools, misattributed-ben-franklin

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