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Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
by Lorraine Cohen

Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen

Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

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

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

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

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

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

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

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

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

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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