About Yourself Quotes - Page 19

• You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Pride, Race

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• I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.

  Thom Yorke

  Book, Way, Ridiculous

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• A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, World, Information

  "How to Read a Book".

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• To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

  Athol Fugard

  Men, Void, Danger

  Athol Fugard (2009). “Tsotsi”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Mean Girls, Upset, Amanda

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• Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.

  Jill Scott

  People, Humanity, Stories

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• Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

  Brad Pitt

  Ideas, Oklahoma, Feelings

  Interview with Jeff Giles, ew.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Inspirational, Thinking, Healthy

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• Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.

  Bill Bryson

  Fun, Nice, Book

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream”, p.262, Random House

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• It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

  Gary Busey

  Love, Friends, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Gary Busey from Mar 05, 2013

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• Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

  Penelope Cruz

  Character, Giving, Photographer

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• I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

  Colin Farrell

  Lying, Interesting, Beef

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• Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

  Guy Finley

  Change, Freedom, Real

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 24, 2013

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• Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.

  Jami Gertz

  Mom, Crazy, Mean

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• As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Helping Others, Worry, Kind

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• I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Drinking, Beer, Years

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• People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Nice, People

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• I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

  Pink

  Thinking

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• But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.

  Sue Miller

  Distance, Bridges, Risk

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• AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

  Pascal Mercier

  Real, Differences, Soul

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• Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?

  Laurie R. King

  Air, Giving, Missing

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• They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.

  Cassandra Clare

  Trying, Always Loved You, Hard

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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• You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

  Beryl Markham

  Dog, Loneliness, Book

  Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

  John Green

  Cute, Baby, Reading

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

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