ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Strüb has happily called Austin home for 10 whole years. While that doesn’t make him a native, he feels it gives him sufficient rights to the popular Austinite catch-phrase “I remember when…” In addition to talking about the unpaved used car lot that gave way to Whole Foods' World Headquarters, he enjoys Alamo Drafthouse, dining outdoors, shopping and traveling. But nothing brings Mark greater joy than spending quality time with his 5 year old son, Jack, at their home in Hyde Park. Mark has a B.S. in Radio-TV-Film from UT and makes his living helping people buy and sell homes.

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August 8, 2010

Self Respect

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

Joan Didion


“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius

“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.”
Ralph W. Sockman


self-re·spect (sĕlfˌrĭ-spĕktˈ)

noun
Due respect for oneself, one's character, and one's conduct.

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