Only You...

Because your existence in time and space is unique, there are lives that only you can touch.

~Harry Palmer

Valuing People

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

~Princess Diana

To Be Beautiful

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Expectations

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

~Wendy Wasserstein

Hating Ourselves...

The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.

~Ellen Goodman

How To Do Without...

Practice within when you’re without.

~Daniel Pena

Our Own Special Light

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.

~Mary Dunbar

How You Feel

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Your Reality

Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

~Les Brown

Shadows

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acquiring Abundance

The strongest single factor in acquiring abundance is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.

~Jerry Gillies

What You Are...

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

~St. Francis De Sales

If..

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!

~Rudyard Kipling

Listen

Listen... it is no accident that the letters in the word "listen" can be rearranged to create the word "silent".  At times, one must be silent to listen to another.

~Author unknown but greatly appreciated

An Educated Mind

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

~Aristotle