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• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Self Respect, Truth

• And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Topics in Attitude, Fear, Self Respect

  Tags in Connections, Presence, Freedom

• Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.

  Bonaro W. Overstreet

  Topics in Fear, Self Respect

  Tags in Acceptance

• When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Nature, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

  Carla Gordon

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Language

• To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.

  Sidonie Gruenberg

  Topics in Children, Confidence, Self Respect

  Tags in Opinion

• The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Acceptance, Loneliness

• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Topics in Friendship, Knowledge, Self Respect

  Tags in Interdependence

• The nice thing about self-love is that it’s hardly ever unrequited.

  Solomon Short

  Topics in Love, Self Respect

  Tags in Hardly, Nice

• I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Topics in Life, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Learning

• There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth

• I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Acceptance

• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  Carl Rogers

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth, Acceptance

• Self-respect knows no considerations.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Justice, Self Respect

  Tags in Human Rights, Humanism, Integrity/Individuality

• They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Nonviolence, Injustice

• People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Acceptance

• What we do matters to us. Work may not be the most important thing in our lives or the only thing. We may work because we must, but we still want to love, to feel pride in, to respect ourselves for what we do and to make a difference.

  Sara Ann Friedman

  Topics in Self Respect, Work

• A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn’t mean we don’t run and jump and dance about. It means there’s no compulsiveness. We don’t overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

  Pema Chodron

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Habit

• I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

  Unknown

  Topics in Inspirational, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Giving, Loneliness, Difficulties, Despair

• The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Love, Self Respect