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• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Topics in Friendship, Knowledge, Self Respect

  Tags in Interdependence

• The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

  Steve Maraboli

  Topics in Belief, Encouragement, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Self Respect

  Tags in Consciousness, Self Improvement, Abusive Relationship, Empowerment, Acceptance, Hope, Personal Growth

• And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Topics in Attitude, Fear, Self Respect

  Tags in Connections, Presence, Freedom

• My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Mistake, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Forgiveness

• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Understanding

• The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Tolerance

• I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Topics in Life, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Learning

• A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn’t mean we don’t run and jump and dance about. It means there’s no compulsiveness. We don’t overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

  Pema Chodron

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Habit

• To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.

  Sidonie Gruenberg

  Topics in Children, Confidence, Self Respect

  Tags in Opinion

• Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.

  Bonaro W. Overstreet

  Topics in Fear, Self Respect

  Tags in Acceptance

• People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Acceptance

• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  Carl Rogers

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth, Acceptance

• I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Acceptance

• Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Topics in Confidence, Self Respect

  Tags in Inclusion, Worth

• Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one’s identity.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Identity

• If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

  John Steinbeck

  Topics in Anger, Self Respect

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Love, Self Respect

• A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

  Cardinal de Retz

  Topics in Self Respect, Trust

• To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Self Respect

  Tags in Solidarity

• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Kindness, Sacrifice, Self Respect, Service