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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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character
inspirational
advice-for-daily-living
self-image
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John Wooden |
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Get Off The Scale
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beauty
motivational
life
inspirational
scale
weight-loss
self-empowerment
self-image
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Steve Maraboli |
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If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?
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image
self-image
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Jodi Picoult |
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I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
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self-image
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.
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uniqueness
self-image
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Max Lucado |
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You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.
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self-image
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Marya Hornbacher |
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The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.
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self-image
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Marya Hornbacher |
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It's hard to feel desire when you don't feel desirable
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love-yourself
self-image
self-esteem
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Christine Feehan |
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"It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be; one of them, a seventeen-year-old, presents little threat, although it would be of some interest to me to know again what it feels like to sit on a river levee drinking vodka-and-orange-juice and listening to Les Paul and Mary Ford and their echoes sing "How High the Moon" on the car radio. (You see I still have the scenes, but I no longer perceive myself among those present, no longer could ever improvise the dialogue.) The other one, a twenty-three-year-old, bothers me more. She was always a good deal of trouble, and I suspect she will reappear when I least want to see her, skirts too long, shy to the point of aggravation, always the injured party, full of recriminations and little hurts and stories I do not want to hear again, at once saddening me and angering me with her vulnerability and ignorance, an apparition all the more insistent for being so long banished. It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you."
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self-reflection
self-image
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Joan Didion |
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We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
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self-image
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George Eliot |
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We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there are times when we think pretty well of ourselves. And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns out to be all sham. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.... We are humanitarian and chivalrous; we don't want to enslave other races, we simply want to bequeath them our values and take over their heritage in exchange. We think of ourselves as the Knights of the Holy Contact. This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. (1970 English translation)
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racism
jingoism
new-worlds
imperialism
space-exploration
science-fiction
self-image
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Stanisław Lem |
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Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
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body-image
society
self-image
self-esteem
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Naomi Wolf |
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And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?
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self-image
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
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I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.
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religion
self-image
sexuality
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Ernest Hemingway |
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A diminished self-image causes us to slouch, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, to be indecisive. On the other hand, a healthy self-image causes us to carry ourselves well, to speak confidently and to portray dignity.
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confidence
indecision
wu-wei
dignity
self-image
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Wu Wei |
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Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.
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confidence
addictions-treatment-centers
alcohol-disease
cure-addiction
overcome-addiction
rehab-centers
addiction
passages-rehab
passages-ventura
pax-prentiss
passages-malibu
addiction-treatment
chris-prentiss
healing-abuse
healing-trauma
healing
alcoholism
disease
change-the-world
self-image
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Chris Prentiss |
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You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble.
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image
image-about-yourself
projection
self-image
self-esteem
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Victoria Holt |
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A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.
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relationships
self-improvement
self-image
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Chris Prentiss |