- A thought is harmless unless we believe it. Byron Katie
- If you want to be successful in life, respect one rule: never lie to yourself. Paulo Coelho
- Self-esteem is earned. Rhonda Byrne
- Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need. Swami Vivekananda
- “Some things are not meant for giving away.” ― Donna Goddard, Pittown
- “Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- Your value, your self-worth doesn’t come from another person. Joel Osteen
- “In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
- “About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don’t believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart’s content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called ‘meaningless’ except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one’s everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- You are often your own harshest authority. Let yourself be free. @dailyzen
- True reassurance: not that one’s plans will inevitably work out, but that one’s human worth is not on the line if they don’t. Alain de Botton
- “Self-knowledge will bring you calm. With calm, you’ll do the right thing. Sometimes, by doing the right thing, you’ll push some people. Do it anyway.” ― Maxime Lagacé
- “A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “APPLY WITHINYou once told meYou wanted to findYourself in the world -And I told you toFirst apply within,To discover the worldwithin you.You once told meYou wanted to saveThe world from all its wars -And I told you toFirst save yourselfFrom the world,And all the warsYou put yourselfThrough.APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem” ― Suzy Kassem
- Be your authentic self, not the person you think other people expect you to be. Payal Kadakia
- “They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It required integrity. It required compassion. It required empathy. It required a deep understanding of what it meant to be humane. It required courage to be something above the others. It required proving your love of God.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
- You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. Eckhart Tolle
- Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. Thucydides
- “Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don’t understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don’t care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don’t have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go!Love, Your Guardian Angel” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- When you learn to close your eyes, wait and listen, silence reveals a beautiful thing: yourself. Maxime Lagacé
- Be honest with who you are. Be honest with who you are not. @PersistentObser
- “If only you could be yourself.” they shouted. So, she did. “You are not like me or anyone I have met!” they screamed. So, she blended. “You are so fake.” they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see…I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me–better.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- Make it a goal to see the best in everyone and the best will come back to you. Rhonda Byrne
- “A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- The very things you cannot bring yourself to consider reveal the lies you have let yourself believe. James Pierce