some of my faves
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Added February 18, 2022
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“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.” ​
— Bertrand Russell
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All Below are Pre February 2022
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. – Carl Jung
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. – Thich Nhat Hanh
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
---Albert Einstein.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--- Elenor Roosevelt.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
---Martin Luther King
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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. – Byron Katie
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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. — Lao Tzu
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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde
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You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise L. Hay
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The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don’t accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are. – Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
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Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness. – Ram Dass
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When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving. – Kim McMillen
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If you can discover your essential beauty, in spite of all your problems and imperfections, you are on the way toward well-being. A preliminary step is simply to accept yourself with all your failures and imperfections. You must get the ego out of the way—the thought that you are so exalted that in your refined state you would be perfect. Acceptance is the beginning of genuine and honest self-love, a requirement for perceiving your own beauty. – Thomas Moore, Dark Nights of the Soul
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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. – Anonymous
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone. – Maya Angelou
Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It is sanity. – Katrina Mayer
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Being true to who we are means carrying our spirit like a candle in the center of our darkness. If we are to live without silencing or numbing essential parts of who we are, a vow must be invoked and upheld within oneself. The same commitments we pronounce when embarking on a marriage can be understood internally as a devotion to the care of one’s soul: to have and to hold … for better or for worse … in sickness and in health … to love and to cherish, till death do us part. This means staying committed to your inner path. This means not separating from yourself when things get tough or confusing. This means accepting and embracing your faults and limitations. It means loving yourself no matter how others see you. It means cherishing the unchangeable radiance that lives within you, no matter the cuts and bruises along the way. – Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
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Self-love isn’t always so poetic; sometimes it’s a nice big triple backflip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive. – Steve Maraboli
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And I said to my body, softly, “I want to be your friend.” It took a long breath and replied, “I have been waiting my whole life for this.” – Nayyirah Waheed
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The relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. – Jane Travis
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I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. – Brene Brown
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Self-love, self-respect, self-worth. There is a reason they all start with “self.” You can not find them in anyone else. – Unknown
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Jack Kornfield
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to received from someone else. – Bell Hooks
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“Aim to live in this world without allowing the world to live inside you, because when a boat sits on water it sails perfectly, but when water enters inside the boat, it sinks.” ~ Imam Ali (Cousin to Islamic prophet Mohammed)
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