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I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
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A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year
for cheating on my metaphysics final ...
I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
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The food at this place is really terrible ...
and such small portions.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
- the Woody Allen movie Casino Royale
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream.
I'll be out in a minute.
- the Woody Allen movie What's New Pussycat
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
You have to learn to push the guilt
under the rug and move on,
otherwise it overwhelms you.
- the Woody Allen movie Match Point
I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.
- the Woody Allen movie Manhattan (1979)
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
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To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
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In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
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A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
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