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While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- 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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
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
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
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
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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