FOUR FREEDOMS

Duke Ellington described the four freedoms he tried to live by when he accepted the Presidential Medal Of Freedom from Richard Nixon, as the following:

Freedom from hate, unconditionally.

Freedom from self-pity.

Freedom from fear, of possibly doing something that would help others more than himself.

Freedom from the kind of pride that would make a man feel he is better than his brother.

- Duke Ellington

GET A LIFE

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.

-Anna Quindlen

PERFECTLY YOU

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

-St. Francis de Sales

FORGING YOUR DESTINY

"Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace." -- James Allen

"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible." -- Robert Schuller

"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny." -- Alan Cohen

YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOURSELF

"The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves." -- Greg Anderson

"Self–esteem means that no opinion and no judgment are so vitally critical to your own growth and development as that which you hold of yourself." -- Denis Waitley

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so you should be very careful about what you say to you!" -- Zig Ziglar