1. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

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2. “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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3. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

— Bill Gates

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4. “Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you’ve got talents, no one can take them from you.”

— Warren Buffett

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5. “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.”

— Osho

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6. “To grow yourself, you must know yourself.”

— John C. Maxwell

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7. “Self care isn’t selfish. It’s self esteem.”

— Ashley Judd

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8. “We are what our thoughts have made us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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9. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

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10. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”

— Earl Nightingale

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11. “Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

— Neville Goddard

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12. “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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13. “Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

— Nhat Hanh

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14. “Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

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15. “Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.”

— Gary W. Keller

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16. “Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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17. “In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”

— Epictetus

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18. “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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19. “Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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20. “It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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21. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Nhat Hanh

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22. “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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23. “Look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are.”

— Louise Hay

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24. “Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.”

— Louise Hay

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25. “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

— Osho

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26. “The only reason men fail is because of broken focus.”

— Mike Murdock

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27. “If you wish to control others you must first control yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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28. “When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”

— Haruki Murakami

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29. “I'm an introvert. I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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30. “Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”

— Vernon Howard

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31. “Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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32. “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”

— Zeno of Citium

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33. “Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.”

— Charles Bukowski

34. “Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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35. “He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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36. “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

— Anne Lamott

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37. “Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.”

— Neville Goddard

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38. “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

— Aldous Huxley

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39. “Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.”

— Neville Goddard

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40. “Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.”

— T. Harv Eker

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41. “If you don’t go within, you go without.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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42. “Remember yourself always and everywhere.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

43. “I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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44. “You are the architect of your own life.”

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

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45. “You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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46. “Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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47. “The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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48. “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

— David Frost

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49. “Success does not require you to look out the window, it only requires that you look in the mirror.”

— Eric Thomas

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50. “Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.”

— A. R. Rahman

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