acceptance

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.

I is who I is.

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.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Learn what you are and be such.

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

I hope to work support my children and die quietly without pain.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.

We cannot all be masters.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.