You are not responsibe for people's assumptions, projections, fantasies about who you are supposed to be. Get free. Let them work that our within themselves. It has nothing to do with who you actually are. - Dr. Thema

"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present." - Stephen R. Covey

I decided who I wanted to be and that is who I am. - Gabrielle Chanel

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me.. There is not a simple degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising of the soul. - Oscar Wilde

Never take a mean advantage of anyone in any transaction, and never be hard upon people who are in your power. - Charles Dickens

A human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often, But I an also aware that we save each other some of the time. - James Baldwin

Hope... is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprise that are obviously headed for early success, but rather, an ability to work for soemthing because it is good, not just because it stands a chace to succeed. - Vaclav Havel

Character... the willingness to accept respnsibility for one's own life, is the source from which self- respect springs. - Joan Didion

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else... you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent, of your surrender, less of a human being. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A painting is never finsihed, it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past. - Fred Rogers