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Births

• 1903 - Jeanette MacDonald
• 1957 - Richard Powers
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  My happiness isn’t connected to my husband’s or my boss’s or my children’s behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

  Michelle Obama

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Control, Happiness
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  They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Nonviolence, Injustice
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  The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality
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  A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth, Character, Dreams, Thinking, Ideas, Imagination

• Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

  Robert Coles

  Topics in Compromise, Confidence, Democracy, Leadership, Politics

  Tags in Government, Integrity/Individuality, Character, Judgment, Conscience, Courage, Choice, Choosing

• If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

   

  Carl Rogers

  Topics in Attitude, Knowledge

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Learning, Choice, Choosing

• We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Intention, Choice, Choosing

• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Action, Choice, Choosing

• I don’t think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

  Denise Levertov

  Topics in Art, History

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Effectiveness, Poetry, Book

• I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

  Unknown

  Topics in Inspirational, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Giving, Loneliness, Difficulties, Despair
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  People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Integrity/Individuality, Worth, Throw

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Topics in Age, Life

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Meaning

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has .

  Barbara De Angelis

  Topics in Age, Life

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Meaning

• If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients’ mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one’s life.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Meaning

• The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Intuition, Creativity

• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Creativity

• Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

  Virginia Satir

  Topics in Humanity, Life

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Discovery, Values, Creativity

• Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Patriotism, Popularity, Controversy, Character, Courage

• To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Dissent, Friendship

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Hero, Thinking, Courage

• With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

  Keshavan Nair

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Compassion, Humility, Courage