Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth and your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel like you are nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance …*
Martin Luther King Jr.

Character, the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which all self-respect springs.**
Joan Didion

Your singular responsibility and mission is to be you
in all of your unrepeatable, imperfect glory and beauty –
I unable to give this to you, and I certainly
cannot take it from you;
It is always yours, awaiting
expression today and
every day.

*Seth Godin’s This Is Strategy;
**Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic.