About Yourself Quotes - Page 35

• The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Interesting, Revelations

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself, you can't tell the difference. Once you gain a modicum of self-knowledge, you can express your passion.....It's not about jumping through someone else's hoops. That's drive.

  Randy Komisar

  Passion, Differences, Jumping

  Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.83, Harvard Business Press

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• Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

  Mortimer Adler

  Time, Too Much, Asks

  Mortimer J. Adler (1997). “How to Speak How to Listen”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

  Russell Brand

  Selfish, People, Care

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• Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

  Andre Breton

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

  Evel Knievel

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in

  Melinda Gates

  Believe, Stay True, Knows

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• All that a guru can tell you is:
  'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
  You are not the person you take yourself to be.'

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Guru, Dear

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• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Tired, People, Feel Good

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Reality, Vision, Cosmos

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• If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  New Orleans, Cities, Want

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• When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Running, Race, Track And Field

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• When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking About You, Certain, Repose

  "I never discuss my mistresses or my tailors" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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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.

  Beryl Markham

  Knowledge, People, Lifetime

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

  Cheri Huber

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Children

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• Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the Five Levels Of Truth Telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Levels, Path, Telling The Truth

  "Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 8, 2011.

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• If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn about yourself. And you want to find things that you genuinely care about, because that will be the source of your greatest work.

  Ed Kashi

  World, Care, Want

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• When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades. Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering. But the ones that are . . . happen again. So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dream, Memories, Opportunity

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• It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

  Robert Solow

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Opinion, Real Freedom

  Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.15, Zondervan

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• A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.

  Stephen Elliott

  Reflection, Light, Years

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.158, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

  Tim Ferriss

  Live Life, Two, Enjoy Life

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• When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dream, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Three Weeks with My Brother". Book by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks, April 5, 2004.

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• It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

  T. D. Jakes

  Uplifting, Workout, Resistance

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• I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. Problems just mean that the world isn't turning the way you want it to. But in truth, there are no problems. Everything is unfolding as it should. Everything is right. You have to forget about yourself and expand your consciousness until you become the whole universe. The Reality in back of the universe is Pure Awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.

  Robert Adams

  Positive, Truth, Mean

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