QUOTATIONS: SELF
Updated January 31, 2000
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." -Les Brown
"To be loved, be lovable." -Ovid
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you like everybody else, is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings
"Know thyself." -Socrates
"Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth- that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even Me." -Angela, My So-Called Life
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." -Anita Koddick
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." -Aldous Huxley
"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 from within." -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Few of us will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of these acts will be written the history of this generation." -Robert Kennedy
"Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have taken the wrong road - turn around!" -Edgar Cayce
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" -Rabbi Hillel
