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I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

—S. E. Hinton

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Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune.

—Walt Whitman

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I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

—John Stuart Mill

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I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

—Woody Allen

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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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While I was young, when I burned with the love of God, I thought I would convert the whole world to God. But soon I realized that it would be more than enough to convert the people who lived in my town, and I made an effort for a long time, but was not successful. Then I realized that my agenda was still too ambitious, and I focused on the people in my household. But I could not convert them either. Finally I realized: I must work on myself, if I'm really going to have something to offer God. But I didn't even accomplish this.

—Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

—Herman Melville

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Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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Sometimes I miss the old me.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

—Michel de Montaigne

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I have a history of trying to fix that which is broken, and I still don't think I've fully learned that people can't be fixed, they have to fix themselves.

—L.H. Cosway in Tegan's Blood

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