It's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Pie, pie, pie.
- Michael (1996)
- the movie Michael (1996)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono
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
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
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)
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- 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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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