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“To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.”
“She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.”
“No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.”
“Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.”
“The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.”
“Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.”
“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
“Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?”
“Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.”
“Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
“I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.”
“The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.”
“Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.”
“To find the good life you must become yourself.”
“Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.”
“Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.”
“Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.”
“We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.”
“Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.”
“A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.”
