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“It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.”
“Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.”
“A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.”
“Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.”
“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
“I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.”
“If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.”
“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”
“The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.”
“I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are the signposts are there waiting for us to translat...”
“It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And ...”
“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
“I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.”
“There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.”
“Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”
“'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.”
“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.”
“One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”
“Most people spend their whole lives waging war—against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS”
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can ca...”
