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“A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.”
“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.”
“Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.”
“When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.”
“So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.”
“Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and...”
“It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.”
“Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.”
“Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”
“Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.”
“If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.”
“Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.”
“Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be.”
“The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.”
“Ultimately love is self approval.”
“Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.”
“If I am not for myself who is for me? And if I am only for myself what am I? And if not now when?”
“What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.”
“Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field piteous all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it ...”
“Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."”
