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“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
Stacey Charter
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
Joss Whedon
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
Lao Tzu
“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Jackie Robinson
“If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.”
Proverb
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich
