Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
- Topic: Change, Choice, Self-esteem
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.
Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
We are our choices.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Esteem to your higher self.
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.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
