...kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes. - Cecelia Ahern I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself. - Jodi Picoult Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away. - Jennifer Love Hewitt Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. - Sun Tzu If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Sun Tzu The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. - Toni Collette But you are a...

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors. - Chuck Palahniuk Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way. Now there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining Pattyn. And when the right young man comes along, he'll love you all the more for giftin' this sad planet with your light. - Ellen Hopkins Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself. - Daniel Radcliffe

Things like this don't happen all that often in one lifetime. This is the magnificent world of a picaresque novel. Just brace yourself and enjoy the smell of evil. We're shooting the rapids. And when we go over the falls, let's do it together in grand style! - Haruki Murakami Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate. - Brian Jacques Mona knocked at the wrong time. "Uh...yeah...wait a minute, Mona -- " Mona shouted through the door. "Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up." Michael grinned at Jon. "My roommate. Brace yourself." Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. "Hi!...

What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change. - Cassandra Clare You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on. --Homer Simpson - Matt Groening

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it's not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren't jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn. - Ethan Hawke The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. - Norman Vincent Peale

Believing in others is easy. It's believing in yourself that's the real challenge. - Giuseppe Bianco Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you. - El Cordobes You just have to keep believing in yourself. - Shannen Doherty Working hard is important, but there's something else that's even more important: believing in yourself. Look at it this way: every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now - students. If they can do it, why not us? - J K Rowling There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself. - Darren L Johnson Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. - Anne Lamott Ben Says: Without truly believing in yourself...SUCCESS will always be impossible.:) Timothy Pi...

Now don't go wandering off, William," she said with a meaningful glance. "I don't want to lose you in the crowd." Will's jaw set. "I'm getting the oddest feeling that you're enjoying this," he said under his breath. "Nothing odd about it." Feeling unbelievably bold, Tessa chucked him under the chin with the tip of her lace fan. "Simply behave yourself. - Cassandra Clare I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I'm going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I'll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises. - Loretta Chase And here I thought you were actually going to behave yourself,"...

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. - Warren G Bennis Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen And eventually being perfect became like carrying a backpack filled with bricks every single day.... What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen

The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop "seeking". - Paulo Coelho Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late. - Paulo Coelho When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself? - Paulo Coelho you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself. - Jodi Picoult You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you ...

Remember : the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. - Douglas Coupland The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. - Doug Coupland I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny. - Michael Hutchence If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action. - Chris Moneymaker

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. - Mortimer Adler But ask yourself this: Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. What if you got it back? - Mitch Albom It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be. - Morrie Schwartz The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it. - Jodi Picoult You will ask yourself How come; you w...

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. - Julie Andrews Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. - Plato You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success. - Julie Benz You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything. - Sophie Ellis Bextor If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. - Mary Shelley Don't dwell on ...

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? - Friedrich Nietzsche No matter what happens, always be yourself. - Dale Carnegie Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you. - Cotton Fitzsimmons Always be yourself, there's no one better! - Selena Gomez Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. - Bruce Lee ...you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up. - Natsuki...

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories. - Caroline Rhea When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really areor, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. - Michael J Sullivan

If you want to be accepted, accept yourself and what you have. Not what you think you feel and what you want. Accept your situation. Accept yourself physically. - Ann Marie Aguilar You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person. - Oprah Winfrey Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose. - Steve Maraboli Surely you ain't weak. You just can't accept yourself as a strong person. - Toba Beta There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. - John Fowles ...You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger. - Terry Goodkind To ...

What is the worst thing about yourself that you like? - Amit Abraham Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all! - J R R Tolkien Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. - Mortimer Adler ....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. - Mortimer Adler Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's ...