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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- Lao Tzu
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use
of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that, seize the opportunity
to sharpen those qualities even more sharply
by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sharpen your pencil as you create the story of your life.
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use
of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that,
seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities
even more sharply by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion,
pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance,
expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
- Sheri Rosenthal
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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