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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
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
Any statement that is self-serving
is likely to contain untruths.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
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
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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 I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
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)
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