Quotes by Lorraine Cohen

Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen

Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer

We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel

Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie