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For once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”

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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

This Lullaby (2002)

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

Someone Like You (1998)

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Someone Like You (1998)

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Dreamland (2000)

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

Dreamland (2000)

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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

Thomas Szasz The Second Sin (1973)

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

John Herschel A Toolbox for Humanity : More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004)

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Martha Gellhorn Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir (1978)

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Insulted and the Injured (1861)

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