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“Myself

I have to live with myself and so
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able as days go by,
always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don't want to stand with the setting sun
and hate myself for the things I've done.
I don't want to keep on a closet shelf
a lot of secrets about myself
and fool myself as I come and go
into thinking no one will ever know
the kind of person I really am,
I don't want to dress myself up in sham.
I want to go out with my head erect
I want to deserve all men's respect;
but here in the struggle for fame and pelf
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself and know
I'm bluster and bluff and empty show.
I never can hide myself from me;
I see what others may never see;
I know what others may never know,
I never can fool myself and so,
whatever happens I want to be
self respecting and conscience free.”
― Edgar A. Guest

“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”
― Cicero

“If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.”
― Ben Franklin

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Helen Keller

“Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.'
'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.”
― Sharon Shinn, Archangel

“Those whom liberty has cost nothing do not know how to prize it.”
― Dr. Samuel Harris

“No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.”
― A.A. Milne

“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.”
― Walt Whitman

“Princes & Kings

Isn't it strange how princes and kings,
and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,
and common people, like you and me,
are builders for eternity?

Each is given a list of rules;
a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.
And each must fashion, ere life is flown,
A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone.”
― R. Lee Sharpe

“From the cowardice that cares not face new truths, from the laziness that is content with half-,truths, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truths - good lord, deliver me.”
― Kenyan Prayer

“No can be a love word.”
― Ron Palmer

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. ”
― Pearl S. Buck

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.”
― Publilius Syrus

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
― Erich Fromm

“Think higher, feel deeper.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
― Fredrich Nietzsche

“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ”
― Gene Fowler

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
― H.G. Wells

“No one may abuse the truth with impunity.”
― Earnie Larsen, Believing In Myself: Daily Meditations for Healing and Building Self-Esteem

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“To the mean all becomes mean.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Classic Philosophy: 6 Books by Nietzsche

“I will not look through keyholes,” I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. “Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

“The position of the palms together- this we use when we pray, do we not? That is a greeting that says that the god that is in you recognises the god in the other. These people are aware of the divine presence in all things.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“Every impression ever made on a person from newborn babyhood onwards will contribute to the shape and texture of the imagination.”
― Lesley Glaister

“Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Whenever you hear this, I hope it finds you well. I hope you're dancing, because you were built for it. I hope you're smiling, because your mouth was made for it. I hope you're laughing, because it's the most incredible sound. And I hope you're being loved by somebody, because you deserve it.”
― Stylo Fantome, My Time in the Affair

“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