1,328 quotes found
“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”
“I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.”
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.”
“I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to...”
“Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.”
“When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!”
“To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”
“I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.”
“The work praises the man.”
“Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.”
“Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.”
“I am the only real truth I know.”
“If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.”
“Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.”
“Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.”
“If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.”
“I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.”
“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
“My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.”
