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A competent and self-confident person is
by Robert A. Heinlein

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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
"Supernatural" is a null word.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

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.
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

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

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.

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

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

Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

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

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

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

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking

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

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

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

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie