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“Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.”
“Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision action and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes...”
“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
“Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertakin...”
“He knows the universe and does not know himself.”
“There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.”
“No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.”
“Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.”
“You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.”
“Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.”
“I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.”
“I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.”
“The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.”
“I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.”
“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.”
“Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.”
“To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.”
“After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"”
“Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings they gradually begin to seem mild harmless rather engaging little things not at all like the staring defects in other people's cha...”
