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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Contempt.
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
I have been brought up and trained to have
the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
Forgiveness is the salve that heals
the wounds of unkind words and acts.
Forgive everyone for every hurt you have ever received -
for your own sake, that you may live in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I'm becoming more and more myself with time.
I guess that's what grace is.
The refinement of your soul through time.
- Jewel
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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