What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.
Interpretation
Value your own opinions over others' judgments.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-reliance and the idea that one should not be overly concerned with the thoughts and opinions of others. By prioritizing our own self-perception and values, we can achieve true independence and inner peace.
In practice
During a motivational seminar, to encourage self-acceptance.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
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