acceptance

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.

Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

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 search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing and when I accepted that and found the way to do it then I was able to write.

Who I am is the best I can be.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

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.