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“What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”
“As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.”
“Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
“He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.”
“If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.”
“From self alone expect applause.”
“Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal educatio...”
“From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.”
“Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.”
“Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.”
“When three people call you an ass put on a bridle.”
“You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.”
“A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.”
“Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.”
“A show of envy is an insult to oneself.”
“I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.”
“Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.”
“The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.”
“Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.”
“To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.”
