Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Live with yourself

In every choice you make, remember this. You always have to be able to live with yourself.

Much of your activity you can successfully disguise, distort, and completely hide from others. But you cannot escape your own knowledge of your thoughts and actions.

What you do, what you decline to do, what you offer, what you compromise, what you withhold, all of it you live with. Every decision is a chance to make a decision that can sit well with you for the entirety of your life.

That can seem ominous and threatening to ponder. Yet in reality and in practice it is highly empowering.

Because holding yourself to your own highest standards pays off not just in the moment. It delivers a positive impact into the whole of your life that compounds in value with every subsequent good choice.

Follow the course that most enduringly enables you to live with yourself. For you and all those whose lives you touch, do your sincere best to make life well worth living.

— Ralph Marston

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