Within Us

'What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.'

Self Respect

'Respect your efforts,respect yourself. Self respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, thats real power.'

- Clint Eastwood -

Loving Yourself

'If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.'

- Barbara De Angelis -

Use Your Days Wisely

'This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind... let it be something good.'

The Soccer World Cup

'The World Cup will help unify people, if there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people, it is soccer.'

- Nelson Mandela -

My Worst, My Best

'I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.'

- Marilyn Monroe -

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~ Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist (1854 - 1900)

Declaration of Self Esteem

'I am Me.

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me.

Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.

Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts.

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me.

If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.

I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do.

I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me.

I am me, and I am Okay.'

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
- Mark Twain on his 70th birthday.

To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

-Mr Shakespeare-
Polonius' advice to Laertes in 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.'

P.S :
If only you could understand the profound import of Mr. S's apothegm !
B.L