"Set your sights on gaining the respect of others rather than on being liked by them... some may not like you, but none will abuse you." ~ Gayla Pledger
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I come in contact with far too many people without self-respect, and though their actions may be quite difficult to tolerate and often impossible to approve of, I am able to recoginze the suffering these actions bring upon them. A lack of self-respect diminishes respect for others, as well, thereby inflicting one's misery on all those they come in contact with. Regardless of the heartache another may have caused you, please know that their own pain is inescapable. No other person on the face of this earth ever "has" to live with me if they do not want to, yet I must live within my own skin every day. It is I who must live with the thoughts and feelings produced by my actions and attitudes, and the only way to escape suffering is through changing what is within myself.
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