#self

...once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals... ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#leadership

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. ↗

— Citium Zeno

#itself #little #little thing #nevertheless #thing

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. ↗

— Dean Inge

#clearly #consecrated #death #eternal #eternal world

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. ↗

— David Letterman

#because #behavior #believe #courage #courageous

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying." A Change Is Gonna Come ↗

— B.J. Neblett

#change #drinking #dysfunctional #relationship #self-indulgent

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#away #decent #decent man #even #every

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#reading #self-discovery #youth #life

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#after #designs #done #how #i

I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem. ↗

— Shelley Long

#boosts #confidence #does #gives #head

Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. ↗

— B.L. Brown

#good-read #inspirational #life-change #love #peace-on-earth