The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
~ Mark Twain
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.
~ Bonaro Overstreet
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
~ Dwight L. Moody
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
~ Johann Von Goethe
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
From self alone expect applause.
~ Marion L. Burton
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write I had a fun time? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.
~ Jean Kerr
You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.
~ Vladimir Zworykin
Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.
~ Mary Mcleod Bethune
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
~ Edna Ferber
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.
~ Janet Flanner
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
~ Bernard M. Baruch
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.
~ Walt Whitman
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
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.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
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 give me that. ... That was all wrong.
~ Raquel Welch
She lacks confidence she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
~ Anaïs Nin
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.
~ William Bennett
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
~ Sandra Bierig
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.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.
~ Anonymous
I am the only real truth I know.
~ Jean Rhys
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.
~ Marlon Brando
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.
~ Joanna T. Steichen
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
~ Louis L'amour
Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.
~ George R. Gissing
The work praises the man.
~ Irish Proverb
Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.
~ Berthold Auerbach
If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
~ Nicolas De Chamfort
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
~ Ellen Sue Stern
I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.
~ Robert Browning
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
~ Margaret Anderson
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
~ Sharon Begley
The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.
~ Sarah Boseley
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
