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“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.”
Albert Einstein
“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient”
Aristotle
“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
Stacey Charter
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock
“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”
“There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”