Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.

—Gordon Atkinson

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Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.

—Gordon Atkinson

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

—Gordon Atkinson

External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.

—Gordon Atkinson

The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.

—Gordon Atkinson

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

—Gordon Atkinson

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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

—Michael J. Fox

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

—Marcus Aurelius

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

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