About Yourself Quotes - Page 20

• Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

  Sarah Dessen

  Toxic, Feels

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.97, Penguin

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• I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it is not something that you just "get over." For the vast majority of eating-disordered people, it is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may change your behavior, change your beliefs about yourself and your body, give up that particular way of coping in the world. You may learn, as I have, that you would rather be a human than a human's thin shell. You may get well. But you never forget.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Giving Up, Get Well, Thinking

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Grateful, Boys

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1422, Bantam

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• But I think it has to do with what you believe about yourself. If you believe you're damned, then you are. But if you don't...

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Thinking, Ifs

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

  Cameron Dokey

  Long, Stories, Done

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Commitment, Thinking

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• There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Defining Moments, Deposits, Draws

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• sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

  Mitch Albom

  Missing, Way, Sometimes

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

  Steve Kluger

  Fall, Facing The Truth, Pulling

  Steve Kluger (2009). “Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel”, p.158, Zondervan

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• To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Know Yourself, Book Of Disquiet

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• Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Confused

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• What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Children, Attractive, Corrections

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

  Jodi Picoult

  First Love, Love Is, Care

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Hands, Luck

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

  Pat Conroy

  Thinking, Special, Knows

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.139, Random House

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• If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

  Lori Lansens

  Like Something, Ifs

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Wife's Tale”, p.176, Knopf Canada

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• You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Decision, Needs, Littles

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

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• You know everything and you know nothing… And in that there’s this: You will always learn something new. About him. About her. About yourself. And in learning the bad, the uncomfortable, the messy- it’s what you take away that counts. What will you do with that knowledge? Will you leave? Pull tighter? Ignore it? Use it to fall in love even deeper? That’s when you learn more about yourself.

  Pamela Ribon

  Falling In Love, Use, Something New

  Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Clubs, Knows

  "Fight Club". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Past, People, Rorschach

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite

  Rick Riordan

  Perfect, Trying, Fit

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• So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Men, Blue, Names

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2009). “Natural Born Charmer”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Third Person, Starting, Persons

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.

  Demi Lovato

  Fighting, Light, Self

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.7, Macmillan

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• If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

  Douglas Coupland

  Want, Return, Intimate

  "Hey Nostradamus!". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2003.

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