WHAT DOES THE WORLD SEE IN OUR EYES?
ARE WE THE SAME TODAY, AS YESTERDAY?
DO WE STAND FOR RESPECT, AND HONOR?
IS OUR CHARACTER STRONG?
OR DOES OUR EYES CHANGE WITH OUR HUNGERS?
DO WE BECOME A PAINTED FACE?
AND STAND FOR WHATEVER IS COMFORTABLE.
A LESSON ON RESPECT, CHARACTER, & HONOR
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
Arapaho Proverb
Respectfulness is the concern for a harmonious relationship with your family, friends and all other people in a society, respect should be a natural response of politeness which can not be demanded. The true identification of respectfulness values others for who they REPRESENT, with a concern NOT to look down onto other people. Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected. When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor. Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is. Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.
WANT TO FLY LIKE AN EAGLE? YOU HAVE TO BE THE EAGLE!
Humankind has not woven the web of life we are but one thread within it. whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together All things connect. ...
Chief Seattle
WHEN YOU OFFER THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP, AND LOVE TO OTHERS, INCLUDE A NEW GIFT, CALLED RESPECT. FOR WITHOUT RESPECT, THERE IS NO LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP BECOMES TAINTED. UNREAL, LIKE THE PAINTED FACES.
WALK IN BALANCE, WITH HONOR, LOVE, AND RESPECT FOR ALL.
