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Compassion for others begins
with kindness to ourselves.
Pema Chödrön |
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The
older I get, the more I realize the importance of
exercising
the various dimensions
of my body, soul, mind,
and heart. Taken together,
these aspects give me a
sense of
wholeness. I want to be a whole human
being
rather than one who limps on one leg
because I don't
know how to use
all of my parts. Intellectual,
emotional, and physical
activity are not
separate
entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same
human being.
Robert
Fulghum
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Endeavor
to be patient in bearing the defects and infirmities
of
others, of what sort soever they be; for thou thyself
also
hast many failings which must be borne with by
others.
Thomas
a Kempis
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What
another would have done as well as you, do not do it.
What another would have said as well as you, do not
say it;
written as well, do not write it. Be
faithful to that
which exists nowhere but in yourself--and
there make yourself indispensable.
Andre
Gide
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You and I can profit by
asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through
the lens of
my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a
friend?
Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly
beautiful
and unique person that I am? Or do I play the
destructive "comparison game"?
What verdict does the
juror of my mind pass on me:
"good at heart" or
"guilty on all counts"?
John Powell, S.J.
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Resolve
to be thyself; and know that those
Who find themselves, lose their misery.
Matthew Arnold |
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Each heart is a
world.--
You find all
within yourself that you find without.--
To know yourself
you have only to set down a true statement
of these that
ever loved or hated you.
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One day,
a woman found herself standing at Heaven's gate. The
angels' only
question to her was, "Zusai, why weren't
you Zusai?" Within that simple question
lies the
heart of all
our soul work. If you are David, why
aren't you fully David?
If you are Susan, why aren't
you completely Susan? We are
here on Earth
to
become who we are meant to be.
Angeles Arrien
And
another version of the same story:
The
Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought
the
kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing
I do know. When I get there I am not going
to be asked, 'Why weren't you
Moses? Why weren't you
David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't
you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"
Alan
Loy McGinnis
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What
I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people
think.
This rule, equally arduous in actual and
intellectual life, may serve
for the whole distinction
between greatness and meanness. It is the harder,
because you will always find those who think they know
what is your duty
better than you know it. It is
easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;
it
is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who
in the midst of the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude.
Ralph
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When you
can, always advise people to do what you see they really
want to do,
so long as what they want to do isn't
dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsocial,
or obviously
impossible. Doing what they want to do, they may
succeed;
doing what they don't want to do, they won't.
James Gould Cozzens |
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When
you reread a classic you do
not see more in the book than
you
did before;
you see more in you
than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman |
I
was always looking outside
myself for strength and
confidence,
but it comes from
within. It is there all the time.
Anna
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It is healthy to
accept myself as I am, to like myself, and to love myself. It is okay for me to accept a compliment or praise.
Because I am just as deserving
and worthy as anyone
else, I may treat myself as well as I treat others,
live
my own life, and enjoy my life. There is a
difference between being unselfish
and being a martyr or
a victim. There is a time for putting myself first
so that I may take care of myself and my needs.
Jill Wolf
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We
all have choices to make about the quality of our presence and
how we will affect those around us.
The quality of our presence is
dependent not on what we can or cannot “do” but on the essence
of who we are and how we relate to others.
Becoming the presence
we would like to be is an intentional work.
It grows while
we make peace with ourselves and with life.
Sallirae Henderson |
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Remember
always that you have not only
the right
to be an
individual;
you have an obligation to be one.
You
cannot make any useful contribution in life
unless you do
this.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
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All of us have to seek in our own way to make
our own selves
more noble and to realize our own true worth.
Albert Schweitzer |
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People grind
and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out
but what was put in.
But the moment they desert the
tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit,
hope,
virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The holiest of holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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In solitude all great things
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Moses Harvey |
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We
either make ourselves miserable,
or we make
ourselves
strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda |
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There's only one corner of the
universe
you can be certain of improving,
and that's your
own self.
Aldous Huxley |
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The
person who makes everything that leads to
happiness
depend upon him or herself,
and not upon other people,
has
adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato |
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Be yourself and think for yourself;
and while your conclusions may not be infallible,
they
will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.
Elbert Hubbard |
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Happiness
belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves.
For
all external sources of happiness and pleasure are,
by
their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious,
ephemeral, and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer |
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Being bored is an insult to
oneself.
Jules Renard |
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Don't
compromise yourself.
You are all you've got.
Janis
Joplin
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Some people feel they cannot
survive without the support, approval, or love
of another person. They decide who that person is and then live
for him or
her. Sometimes we choose a parent, but it can also be a spouse,
a friend,
or a child.
You choose dependence because it seems safer. When
children were not
protected by their parents, they seek protection as adults. They
want to be
treated like children. You are taught to be dependent by parents
or spouses
who prefer control to equality.
You may feel worthless, so you use others to remind you
of your value. You
allow them to be the measure of your worth.
See if you are choosing to let someone else live your
life. Then think about
what you really want to do. What you want is at least as
important as what
someone else wants for you, and it's much more likely to bring you
happiness.
Jennifer James
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You have
to be true to yourself,
but you have to be true to your best self,
not
to the self that secretly thinks
you are better than other people.
Stephen
Gaskin
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Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our
life is
not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success,
popularity,
and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive
quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger
temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the
voices
that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and
power
are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however,
is
self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as
soon
as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking,
"Well,
that proves once again that I am a nobody." . . . [My dark side
says,] I am
no good. . . I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and
abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life
because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the
"Beloved." Being
the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.
Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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