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Both low self-esteem and pride are horrible nuisances to our own future and to everyone around us. — Timothy Keller

When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. — Steven Pressfield

Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our Self, by our own sense of who we are — The Truth

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul. — Shannon L. Alder

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. — Anne Lamott

The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds. — Karuna Cayton

There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom. — Liz Thebart

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew. — Richard Chenevix Trench

Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people's interests — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Unbinding the Heart means to really look at the areas in our lives where we withhold our own love from our self and others. — Agapi Stassinopoulos

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead. — Beyonce Knowles

We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence. — George Eliot

We do not just go through life blindly,we create our own journey.
Your faith has sculpted you into the human being you have become. — Judie McCarty

While fighting for acceptance, we must remember that our own self worth is not determined by whether or not we get it. — Stuart Duncan

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self. — Aisha Mirza

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. — Steve Maraboli

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. — Susan Jeffers

Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own selves. — Sheikh Abdullah

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. — George Eliot

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance. — Mata Amritanandamayi

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence. — Henry S. Haskins

In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives. — Lisa Firestone

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell

A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! — Deeba Salim Irfan

We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries. — Sorin Cerin

In the event of a total loss of direction in life, be sure to sort our your own shit before you start telling people what to do. — A.C. Ping

We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem. — Jerry Bridges

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our
control. — Franz Bardon

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony. — Deepak Chopra

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. — Nick Hornby

Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits? — Ruthy Alon

Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. — Anthony Doerr

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. — Andre Berthiaume

We are not our own light. — Nicolas Malebranche

At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds — Dr. V. V. Rao

The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing us. — James H. McConkey

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion — Richard J. Foster

Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way. — Alice McCall

If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. — Stephen Richards

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown. — Jane Avrich

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free — Trevor Hall

Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us. — Bill Jensen

Limitations are nothing more than optical illusions, created by our own self-doubt. — Robert M. Hensel

We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery. — Steven Cuoco

In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought. — William Wordsworth

Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin. — Michele McKnight Baker

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. — Lord Chesterfield

We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life. — Henna Inam

Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. — Daniel Kahneman

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. — Joseph Campbell

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation. — Josh Fox

Why is it that we don't worry about a compass until we're lost in a wilderness of our own making? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually — Malcolm X

No matter what horrible circumstances we may face in our lives, we must never lose hope, for losing hope is the beginning of our own self defeat. — Consolee Nishimwe

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment ... — Arianna Huffington

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. — Will Self

Sometimes the kick in the pants we need must come from our own foot! — Toni Sorenson

We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self]. — Dada Bhagwan

We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness. — Richard Carlson

It's okay. We're all messed up in our own special way. — Allison Rushby

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. — Brian Tracy

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. — John Irving

It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of the market place... — Ainslie Meares

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business. — Roger Rosenblatt

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense. — Mike Huckabee

I see." I didn't see, though. How do we ever see something about our own self? — Elizabeth Strout

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts. — April Gornik

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.
(Against Fortunatus) — Augustine Of Hippo

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. — Rene Descartes

We are more severe judges of our own acts ... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts. — Anais Nin

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others. — Marty Rubin

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person. — Jurgen Habermas

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence ... makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle.

The service of self terminates at our own death. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. — Samuel Johnson

Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of 'our' own accord. — Dada Bhagwan

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. — Albert Ellis

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. — Phillips Brooks

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value. — Benjamin Hoff

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own. — Marianne Williamson

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world. — Bill Hicks

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us ... to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells ... — Bill Hicks

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer

We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own. — Alaric Hutchinson

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves. — Brenda Shoshanna

How much would every marriage change if we pursued absolute benevolence over our own comfort, happiness, and self-interest? — Gary Thomas

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. — Ron Pearce

We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other. — Heather K. O'Hara

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts. — Stendhal

Staring too long at the light of another will blind us from seeing our own. — Charles F. Glassman

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our mind has a mind of its own. — Lauren Handel Zander

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. — Johannes Tauler

. . the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration. — Michael Dirda

Somehow, we each create our own prisons, one for which only we, hold the key. — Sue J. Daniels

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set. — Steven Pressfield

Our current societal construct demonstrates we are uncaring and largely self-centered beings driven only by our own needs — Bryant McGill