The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
- Topic: Love, Respect, Self-esteem
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
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Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
