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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. -- Anna Quindlen
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. -- Henry A. Kissinger
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. -- Henri Matisse
At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself. -- Audrina Patridge
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. -- Bill Kurtis
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. -- Arundhati Roy
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. -- Kevyn Aucoin
People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends. -- Katherine Parkinson
In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. -- Peter Lindbergh
I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see. -- Andrew Mason
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. -- Harold Bloom
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box. -- Adam Savage
It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video. -- Nick Woodman
You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all. -- Richie Havens
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. -- Aristotle
To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The fear of being yourself is the beginning of self-doubt. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think. -- Guillermo del Toro
Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success. -- Cat Cora
Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching. -- Robin Sharma
Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength. -- Robert Anthony
Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself. -- Pema Chodron
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Today is the best day with great possibilities and opportunities, so change yourself to start a new beginning. -- Debasish Mridha
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today. -- Geneen Roth
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom. -- Margaret Mitchell
Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing. -- Christiane Northrup
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge. -- Ivan Pavlov
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love. -- Fritz Leiber
You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser. -- Poppy Z. Brite
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting. -- Philip Guston
At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. -- Joe Tye
Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. -- Olga Korbut
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality -- Ian Mcewan
Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning. -- Jeff Buckley
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. -- Isabelle Huppert

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