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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

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

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

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

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

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell

What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

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

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

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

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus

Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

No one was ever named HERO for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

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

Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are.
It is our choices.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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

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