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You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
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I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It stands to the everlasting credit of science
that by acting on the human mind
it has overcome man's insecurity
before himself and before nature.
- Albert Einstein
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- 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
This above all, 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
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
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.
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
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
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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 are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
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 way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- 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
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
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I grant myself the Honor of being ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dance with a Light Heart.
I play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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