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You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau

Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford

He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

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

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields

This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- 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

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Guilt is about actions or behavior;
while shame is about the self.
- "Dr. Sanity"

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

God has entrusted me with myself.
- Epictetus

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Today is the right day to do
what you have long wanted to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie