Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

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The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them. ― Roy T. Bennett

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The issue is not what you may be facing, rather your interpretation of it. Always think in a positive light to create a better world for yourself and others. ― steven redhead

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Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself. ― Roy T. Bennett

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I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

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Then I began, as though I had never seen my shoes before, to study their expression, their mimelike movements when I moved my toes, their shape, and the worn-out leather they had; and I discovered that their wrinkles and their white seams gave them an expression, provided them with a face. Something of my own being had gone over into these shoes, they struck me as being a ghost of my "I," a breathing part of myself. . . . ― Knut Hamsun

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw

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It's not about the shoes, it's what you do in them.

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You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.- Maya Angelou

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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.― Author-Poet Aberjhani

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