One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”

 – Shannon L. Alder

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”– Charles Bukowski

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”– Robert Morley

“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”Coco Chanel

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”Dr. Seuss

“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”Wayne Dyer

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”– André Gide

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”Sarah Dessen

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. R. G. Ingersoll

The only way out is in.”Junot Díaz

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses”Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert Schuller

The time is always right to do what is right.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. (See the YouTube video of “I have a dream”)

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

A right delayed is a right denied.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr