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#1

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

tags: beauty, charity, inspirational, kindness, misattributed-audrey-hepburn

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#3

“It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: character, emma, integrity, jane-austen, man, trick, truth

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#4

“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: honesty, integrity, self-help

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#5

“I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: choice, conscience, courtship, dignity, empowerment, feminism, gender, independence, integrity, love, marriage, matrimony, self-determination, social-norms, women, wooing

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#6

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”
― Mary Connealy, Doctor in Petticoats

tags: character, integrity

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#7

“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)”
― Dorothy L Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

tags: academia, artists, falsification, gain, greed, honesty, honour, integrity, lies, money, morality, scholars, science, selling-out, treason, truth, values, veracity, writing

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#8

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#9

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: integrity

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#10

“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
― Barbara De Angelis

tags: honesty, integrity, personal-responsibility, truth-telling

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#11

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass

tags: integrity, moral-courage, self-esteem

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#12

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

tags: integrity, mind

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#13

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr

tags: benevolence, charity, integrity

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#14

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

tags: integrity

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#15

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: benevolence, generosity, integrity, moral-courage

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#16

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: doing-right, goodness, integrity

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#17

“I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.”
― Cesar Millan

tags: dogs, integrity

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#18

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#19

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: confidence

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#20

“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#21

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#22

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: inner-strength, self-confidence, self-contentment

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#23

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: comparison, gossip, inspirational, integrity

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#24

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers

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#25

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: humility

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#26

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#27

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#28

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

tags: philosophers, philosophy

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#29

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, understand-what-you-read

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#30

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
― Epictetus

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#31

“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: corpse, incarnation, mind-over-body, soul

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