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«Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
Character,
Criticism,
Understanding
| Keywords:
character, complain, condemn, condemning, control, criticize, criticizes, fool, forgiving, self, self control, takes, understanding, understandings
«Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life»
Author: James F. Byrnes
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
beautiful, Beautiful Life, friendship, interest, rare, self, self interest
«When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can't accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.»
Author: Sasha Azevedo
(Actress, Athlete, Model)
| Keywords:
accept, acceptance, beautiful, certainly, confidence, inside, jealousies, jealousy, lack, lesson, no confidence, No One, No self, result, self, self acceptance, self confidence, There Is Nothing, worth
«Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
belongs, self, self sufficient, sufficient, the self
«Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
act, action, Act of, choose, choose up, desire, else, in that, limitation, reject, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, self, sense
«Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(Actress, Producer)
| Keywords:
back down, beliefs, builds, confidence, confidences, down, esteem, Esteeming, esteems, keep back, keep down, peace, self, self confidence, self esteem, standing, standings
«Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
consists, courage, power, powered, power i, recovery, self, The Power, The Powers That Be, The Power and the, to the power
«Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.»
«He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
beings, Everything, experiences, eye, eyeing, Eye for an eye, His, impartial, in all, In My Eyes, life, looks, own, Seeing Eye, sees, see eye to eye, self, unity, WHO, with
«Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Elegance,
Self reliance
| Keywords:
anything, as to, elegant, few, self, serve, serve up, serve well, wants
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