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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz 
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda
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