“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
Henry James
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
Andre Gide
“When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.”
Cheryl Hughes
“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
Shannon L. Alder
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
George Eliot
“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
Patrick Rothfuss
“When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self-acceptance opened.”
Shannon L. Alder
“For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.”
Paul Auster
“Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.”