Knowing Yourself

Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Today's affirmation: I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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Further reading:  Choosing Your Life Purpose

Intuition

Trust Yourself

Your True Self

Take Charge of Your Life

Being Yourself

Awareness

Growing Up

Questions

Darkness

Personal Growth

Pay It Forward

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each of us has been generously gifted by parents, teachers, mentors, and others we can never repay. So, in gratitude for what we have received, it is now our turn to generously gift the children, the up-and-coming, and the down-and-out -- with no expectation that they can ever repay us - and with the hope that they will, in turn, pay-forward to another generation.

TODAY, consider performing an act-of-kindness for someone who can never repay you.

My friend Clint Steele has a website that is dedicated to the Pay-It-Forward concept and to weekly ideas for Pay-It-Forward Fridays. Take a look at payitforwardx1million.com

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Universal Kindness and Compassion

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable

Legacy

Generosity

Compassion

Gratitude

Children

Kindness

Respect Yourself

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

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity
is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
- Thomas S. Monson

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

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
- Osho

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

Further reading: How to Deal with Rejection

Need For Approval

Become Your Own Greatest Hero

Respect Yourself quotes

Honor

Integrity

Self Worth

Pride

Self Respect

Observing Life

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie

Today's Affirmation:
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life is All in the Perspective We Take on It

Gratitude and Observing Life (pay special attention to the "Today In My World" exercise at the bottom of this post)

Daily Journaling - How to Begin a Rewarding Journaling Practice

Observer

New Eyes

Knowledge

Discovery

What Is Life

It's a Wonderful Life

Live With Enthusiasm

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited.
One gets excited about going on a roller coaster.
One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
- Bo Bennett

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you feel stressed? Unsure of your life purpose? Unhappy with life?

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Further reading: Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

Do more of what inspires you

What Can Christopher Columbus Teach Us Today?

Enthusiasm quotes

Success

Failure

Zest

Effort

Achievement