Yourself
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Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious — and if you get into the habit of doing that — it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Creating an overall healthy lifestyle for yourself doesn't require a radical diet or significant life change. In fact, it can be attained through common sense decisions about the way we eat, move, and live.
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.
In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.
With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.
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