It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.
– Nathaniel Branden
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- Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. – Mandy Hale
- I know it’s painful growing,I bet the changes was painful too.But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don’t belong. Obviously. – Touaxia Vang
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- Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. – Nathaniel Branden
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- I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint. – DA Paul
- She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. – Amit Kalantri
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
- Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive-“ my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. – Jonathan Franzen
- A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may not have much of anything of value. – T Jay Taylor
- War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war. – Dean Hughes
- If you build it well, a satisfaction comesAn honor to say I built that with fidelity,Purpose, value and integrity – Richard L Ratliff
- Today’s society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets. – Solange nicole
- Heroes show us courage, honor, integrity and strength. Now more than ever, we need heroes. – John Patrick Hickey
- Gratitude beats paucity. Love trumps hate and integrity and honor are more valuable than huge wealth. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence. – Gian Kumar
- Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. – Paulo Coelho
- Removing a diamond on a rock is painful but it’s more painful when it loses its value when it’s not cherished, let alone shaping. – Goitsemang Mvula
- If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love. – Boris Pasternak
- There is no honor for God without honor for His people – Sunday Adelaja
- Hold onto who loves and honor you.Not everyone will know how to.Some souls don’t even know how to love and honor themselves, let alone you. – Lalah Delia
- If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for the rest of the time to come. – Amit Kalantri
- Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- (About a cookbook…)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor…but they ends up Tarts. – Terry Pratchett
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- All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception? – Keith RA DeCandido
- A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave. – F Scott Fitzgerald