“Seek balance in your valued relationships. Reciprocate where you feel happy to do so, and offer time and attention with a sensitivity to what the other is offering. Balance is key to enjoying the relationship dance.”
— William DeFoore
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, And urge us on to futile activity, And in the end, judge us still more severely, For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?”
— T. S. Eliot
“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
— Agnes Repplier
“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.”
— Leo C. Rosten
“The most fundamental approach to breaking any cycle is to come back to the consciousness of Self – to thine own Self be true. When we find Self we no longer have need or attachment for any other thing. That doesn’t mean we can’t respond and enjoy other things, but we’re not on a need level where we die emotionally if we don’t have it.”
— John-Roger
“When you go beyond yourself, that’s when magical things can happen.”
— Roger Sparks
“One of life’s greatest joys is the sense of wonder that accompanies the arrival of a tiny new human being into the world. But that joy is accompanied by a tremendous responsibility that perfectly encapsulates the need for personal initiative. You can provide children with all the physical advantages of a good childhood, but unless you strive to set a good example for them to follow, you will know only dismay as they reach adulthood and blossom into purposeless drifters. Your personal initiative, whether or not you are raising a child, must always incorporate exemplary behavior. You cannot take ethical shortcuts, big or small, without other people observing them and assuming that this behavior is something you wouldn’t mind having turned back on yourself. Certainly you will make mistakes, but if you have always striven for the best course, others will remember it and treat you accordingly.”
— Napoleon Hill