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I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.W.h. Auden
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The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite.Toni Sorenson
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The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago.Gabriela M. Sanchez
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Never trust a person that doesn't trust you... If they lack trust they don't have faith in you. If they lack faith then they don't esteem you highly. If they lack esteem for you than how can you expect them to treat you fairly?Ana Marie Velazquez
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But more important than the food I put into my body are thoughts I put into my mind. Thoughts of bitterness like, “I hate her! ” Thoughts of despair like, “I'll never be happy again.” Thoughts of fear like, “I could never do that! ” And thoughts of worry, thoughts of greed and thoughts of self-loathing…“ I’m so stupid.” A constant diet of these killer thoughts will destroy any of us long before heart burn or cholesterol.Steve Goodier
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Endow yourself with healthy self-esteem. What is the feeling tone in your life that radiates in you and makes you shine, that makes you feel whole, that makes you feel your heart? That feeling tone, which we long to hear from others, is the tone we want to practice with ourselves. That’s where we want to live with ourselves. It doesn’t happen from the outside in. That’s why it’s called self-esteem.Alexandra Katehakis
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Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.Benilde Little
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One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superiorFriedrich Nietzsche
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Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's honour. One lies all one's life long, even, especially, perhaps only, to those who love one. For they alone make us fear for our pleasure and desire their esteem.Marcel Proust
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We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.Taylor Caldwell