When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

Yes, it is worthwhile to live! Yes, I am worthy to live! Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesting to ourselves once more.

Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure? Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions? Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize? Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling? When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless? Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder? Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.