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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Love, Freedom, True

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Faith, Happy, Successful

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Silence, Made

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee

Faith, Successful, Express

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

Done, Whatever, Choice

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

Love, Someone, Person

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, Catch, Pursuit

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

Freedom, Someone, Friend

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength, Courage, Experience

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

Win, Cannot, Hell

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

Happiness, Good, Attitude

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

Power, Freedom, Fear

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Lonely, Struggle, Try

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

Time, Find, Side

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss

Direction, Shoes, Guy

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney

Else, Makes, Unique

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama

Everything, Desire, Practice

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend, Give, Gift

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda

God, Cannot, Until

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale

Life, Work, Family

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatest, Trying, Else

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings

Best, Fight, Human

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

Love, Everything, Done

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Heidi Klum

Positive, Important, Jealous

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh

Life, Morning, Strength

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston

Faith, Patience, Acceptance

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

God, Another, Face

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

Happiness, Happy, Around

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Love, Universe, Deserve

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C. S. Lewis

Thinking, Humility, Less

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