You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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Life isn’t about being perfect; it’s about improving. It’s not about achieving more, acquiring more, or even about actually being more. It’s about becoming better…better than you were.

~ Toni Sorenson

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One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

~ Jess C. Scott

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I was tired of being me.

~ Rachel Ward

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You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.

~ Jeanette Winterson

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Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

~ John Updike

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There is something more dangerous than the death of one’s body. It is “the undiscovered self”, being alive without knowing why.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, that guy'snuts.out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

~ Charles Bukowski

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The sky is not my limit...I am.

~ T.f. Hodge

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The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within.

~ T.f. Hodge

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Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

~ T.f. Hodge

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Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

~ T.f. Hodge

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Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.

~ T.f. Hodge

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It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.

~ T.f. Hodge

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Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

~ T.f. Hodge

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You don't need to be everyone, nothing is ever awesome than to be comfortable in your own skin.

~ Adedayo Olabamiji

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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

~ Amit Kalantri

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To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation

~ Vivian Amis

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Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

~ Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Poetry Self

I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.

~ Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn Identity Poem Poetry Self

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

~ Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti Poetry Self

What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sakeAnd holds us flush there until we begin to love itAnd have to begin again?What is it within our own lives we decline to liveWhenever we find it, making our days unendurable,And nights almost visionless?I still don't know yet, but I do it.

~ Charles Wright

Charles Wright Life Living Love Poem Poetry Self Uncertainty

In a fieldI am the absenceof field.This isalways the case.Wherever I amI am what is missing.

~ Mark Strand

Mark Strand Poetry Self

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poetry Self

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

~ Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold Poetry Self

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

~ Karen Tei Yamashita

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And yet this self, containsTides, continents and stars―a myriad selves,Is small and solitary as one grass-bladePassed over by the windAmongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

~ Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis Poetry Self

I want to unfold.I don’t want to be folded anywhere,because where I am folded,there I am a lie.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Self

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

~ Brennan Manning

Brennan Manning Beloved Faith Identity Self Silence Solitude

We are spiritual children of God the Father. We preach it. We sing it. But do we really understand it? Sometimes it’s easy to tell others they are loved, but not so easy to believe it of ourselves — not because we don’t think God loves His children, but because we may feel undeserving of His love. The adversary loves to remind us who we are not. Not pretty. Not smart. Not strong. But God would not have sacrificed His Son to save us if we aren’t worth saving.

~ Toni Sorenson

Toni Sorenson Faith Inspiration Life Self Worth

Build your self in the Holy Faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him.

~ Timothy J. Keller

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And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and get an opportunity to release the pent-up emotions and feel light.

~ Chitralekha Paul

Chitralekha Paul Emotions Internet Self Writers Writing

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.

~ C. Elizabeth

C. Elizabeth Hearing Inner Inspirational Lighthearted Self Whisper Writing

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

~ Alain De Botton

Alain De Botton Authors Books Self Writing

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

~ Jonathan Price

Jonathan Price Observation Self Thinking Writing
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