You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
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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If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.
Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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.