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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

— Lucille Ball Attributed

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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Love, Lucy (1996)

My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

Love, Lucy (1996)

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

Love, Lucy (1996)

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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

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Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Martha Gellhorn Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir (1978)

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 the Injured (1861)

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