Quotes 741 till 760 of 828.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.
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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.
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You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
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You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.
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You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
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You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 180 -
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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You dig into yourself and the community to wage psychological war fare; you combat your own fears about beatings, shootings, and possible mob violence... you create a small striking force capable of moving out when the time comes.
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You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.
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You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
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You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
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You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.
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