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.
~ Jane Roberts
So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.
~ Vita Sackville-West
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 illusory.
~ Luigi Pirandello
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
~ William James
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
~ Billy Joel
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
~ Mary S. Almanac
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.
~ Jean Anouilh
Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
~ Freya Stark
If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.
~ Fay Weldon
Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.
~ Emmanuel
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
~ Ellen Goodman
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.
~ Maria Mitchell
Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.
~ Doris Mortman
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
~ Maxwell Maltz
It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.
~ John P. Loughrane
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
~ Bernie S. Siegel
Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.
Ultimately love is self approval.
~ Sondra Ray
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
~ Hugh Prather
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm Forbes
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?
~ Hillel
Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...
~ Kara Digiovanna
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
~ Susan Sontag
Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
~ Ram Dass
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.
~ Louisa May Alcott
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
~ Edna Ferber
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.
~ Monica Baldwin
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
~ Channing Pollock
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
~ Diana Black
Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
~ William Shakespeare
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
~ Lucille S. Harper
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
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 in another.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
~ Marya Mannes
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?
~ Sherwood Anderson
Your father used to say Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for.
~ Nancy Hale
Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
