acceptance

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.

I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

I am the only real truth I know.

Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!