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“I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”
― Greta Garbo, Garbo

“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, The Insulted and Humiliated

“You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.”
― Mary J. Blige

“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Do the truth quietly without display.”
― Brennan Manning

“Once upon a time, there was a King who walked astride his world - here, there and everywhere. He became poor in order to be like the people he loved, and he lived among the outcasts in order to feel their pain.”
― David Mains, Tales of the Kingdom

“a park ranger is a protector. You protect the land from the people, the people from the land, the people from each other, and the people from themselves. It's what you are trained to do without even thinking, a reflexive and unconditional act. If you're lucky, you get assigned to people who seem worth saving and land and waters whose situation is not hopeless. If not, you save them anyway. And maybe in time, saving them will make them worth it.”
― Kurt Caswell, To Everything on Earth: New Writing on Fate, Community, and Nature

“We need to relax a bit, turn away from the noise of the world, and listen to the voice of God because He has everything put together.”
― A.W. Tozer, A Cloud by Day, a Fire by Night: Finding and Following God's Will for You

“I need to remember that God is not trying to glorify me; rather, He wants to glorify himself through my life.”
― A.W. Tozer, A Cloud by Day, a Fire by Night: Finding and Following God's Will for You

“If you do not feel the Holy Ghost at work distinctly and perceptibly even now, then lift your heart to God for it, and pray that you may now receive him in all his fulness.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Walking in the Power of the Holy Spirit: Ten Classic Sermons