Remember always, you are the gift!
Interpretation
Recognize your inherent value and the positive impact you have on the world.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-worth and the unique contribution each individual brings to the world. It serves as a reminder that every person is a gift not only to themselves but also to others, encouraging us to appreciate our own existence and the potential we have to influence those around us positively.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.
People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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