The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
- Abraham Lincoln
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
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
The person who you're with most in life is yourself
and if you don't like yourself,
you're always with somebody you don't like.
- Marc S. Lewis
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Every day is the perfect day to ask yourself
questions about your life goals,
and how you plan to address those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.
It is seeing things clearly,
and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
Think occasionally of the suffering
of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your sacred space is where you can
find yourself again and again.
- Joseph Campbell
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is,
and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Know that life's burdens are lighter when you laugh at yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love yourself as you truly are -
and live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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