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• For a true spiritual transformation to flourish, we must see beyond [the] tendency to mental self-flagellation. Spirituality based on self-hatred can never sustain itself. Generosity coming from self-hatred becomes martyrdom. Morality born of self-hatred becomes rigid repression. Love for others without the foundation of love for ourselves becomes a loss of boundaries, codependency, and a painful and fruitless search for intimacy. But when we contact, through meditation, our true nature, we can allow others to also find theirs. ~Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness
  
  

• Boundaries contain bodies, minds, emotions, spirit, possessions and rights……the energy we refer to as 'me' ~ Melody Beattie
  
  
• He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny
  
  
• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~Will Rogers
  
  
• Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell

• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
  
  
• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~Frederick Douglass
  
  
• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. ~Axel Munthe
  
  
• If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ~Max Nordau
  
  
• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. ~William J.H. Boetcker
  
  
• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ~Michel de Montaigne