Speak when you are angry -- and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. - Deepak Chopra 

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. - Stephen R. Covey

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other. - Russ Von Hoelscher

Before we can have a successful relationship with anyone, we first need a perfect personal relationship. - Russ Von Hoelscher

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. - Deepak Chopra

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes.  What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself.  To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.  ~Laurence Sterne


You punch me, I punch back.  I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.  ~Edward Koch
 

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.  Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.  ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jag föredrar att vara sann mot mig själv, även med risken att drabbas av förlöjligande av andra, snarare än att vara falsk, och att ådra min egen avsky. ~ Frederick Douglass 

Om jag föraktade mig själv skulle det ändå inte kompenseras om alla älskade mig, om jag respekterar mig själv så spelar det ingen roll vad andra tycker om mig eller inte tycker om mig. 

"I don't have to prove anything to anyone. I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I have to say to the world. I run my world."

- Beyonce

If you want to fly you have to get rid of everything that holds you down.

"Success comes trough rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right the first time"

A door shut? See the window there, it's open, just for you.

It's the art of letting go, no longer holding on to the past, instead looking forward to the future. But it's not forgetting, it's accepting life as it is.

It is moving on...

Listen to your instinct. It will tell you what's right.

Robert H. Schuller
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Lao Tzu
At the center of your being you have the answer; You know who you are and you know what you want.

Henry Van Dyke
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Everyone hears what you say. 

Friends listen to what you say.

Best friends listen to what you don't say.

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

- Leo C. Rosten

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.” 

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"Fear makes strangers of those who would be friends." -Shirley MacLaine

"Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others." -Lama Yeshe

"Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close." -Daisaku Ikeda

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." -Thich Nhat Hanh

”Never argue with an idiot. They’ll only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

Never let the fear of losing stop you from playing the game

Never regret anything because at one time - it was exactly what you wanted

You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play the game better than anyone else.
-Einstein

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Motton jag försöker leva efter...

Jag har flera motton som jag försöker leva efter. De flesta är citat som jag kan utantill och som på något sätt reflekterar tillbaka på de värderingar jag har, och som grundar sig i en moral som jag har. Några går såhär:

Respect for others, respect for yourself, responsibility for all your actions. (Tycker den låter bättre på engelska)

Behandla alla människor med värdighet och respekt, även om ni inte är lika eller tycker lika.

Se aldrig ner på någon, såvida du inte hjälper den resa sig upp

Var alltid snäll, ödmjuk och kärleksfull... men sätt dina gränser.

 

ASK YOURSELF

I'm gonna smile beacuse I deserve to

Time is everything, what's right now?

Gör det som är bäst för dig IDAG, så skapar du dig den bästa vägen för IMORGON.

Din magkänsla är din kompass

Vad du är gör i livet och vart du än är: Följ alltid din magkänsla, för den leder i slutändan alltid rätt. Om du är osäker och ska fatta ett viktigt beslut så betyder det att du behöver mer tid att fatta det, helt enkelt. Hela du, din kropp känner när något är rätt eller fel - tro på dig själv och din instinkt. Det finns många människor som förnekar sin instinkt och som bara "skjuter" iväg den... det är så fel, för det är din kompass i livet.
Självklart så måste du ha fötterna på jorden och bra värderingar för att kunna lita på din "kompass".. Gör ständigt nya saker, ifrågasätt dig själv när du gör saker och ifrågasätt hur du tänker för att lära känna dig själv och veta vart du står, vad du tycker är rätt och fel, vad du tror på - dina värderingar. Det du värdesätter i andra människor och det du värdesätter i dig själv, vet du detta så vet du också mer vart du står, vem du är och vad du bryr dig om.
Livet handlar dock inte om att "hitta sig själv", utan om att skapa sig själv... När du skapar dig själv så finner du också en tillfredsställelse som i sig innebär att du "finner" en del av dig själv...

Det är i alla fall vad jag tror på.

Mycket kärlek,

Diana

Life lessons

1. Goals. "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
2. Flexibility. "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
3. Time. "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
4. Service. "Real living is living for others."
5. Acceptance. "Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
6. Single-Mindedness. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
7. Creativity. "Using no way as way, using no limitation as limitation."
8. Simplicity. "Simplicity is the key to brilliance."
9. Find Your Path. "Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own."
10. Take Action. "Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do."
11. Ego. "The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups."

"Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead."

 

 

"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."

I'm selfish, i'm patient 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.