It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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)
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda
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
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
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
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
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
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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