"By your stumbling, the world is perfected."
Sri Aurobindo
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the
person you are."
Anonymous
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of
the sea, at the long
courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of
the stars; and they
pass by themselves without wondering."
St. Augustine
“The self becomes understood not as a unit seeking
stability, but rather a process where the subparts constantly shift, adjust,
and change. This is the self-transforming self.”
Caroline Bassett
"The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of
one's own nature."
Paul Bowles
"I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent."
Ashleigh Brilliant
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love
and affection."
Buddha
"Well being is attained little by little, and is no little thing itself."
Zeno of Citium
"When you can truly take your power back, by seeing how you
got yourself into that situation, seeing how you stayed in it, seeing how you
kept yourself in denial because it was more comfortable, seeing how you didn't
listen to that inner voice, those warnings. Then there's no need
to learn to trust anyone else. You trust yourself, you make a commitment to
yourself. 'I will never betray you again. I will never settle for less
than you deserve. I will never talk you out of those warnings you are
giving me.' It doesn't matter then who tries to hurt you, you won't fall
for it, because you are on your own side."
Barbara De Angelis
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life
is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Dillon
"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it
was ourselves."
Robert Frost
"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life
reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."
Shakti Gawain
"We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of
ourselves."
Andre Gide
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
Goethe
"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to
perfection."
Goethe
"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are."
Julius Charles Hare
"What we value and what we fear are within our self."
Lao-Tzu
"There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people.
Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us."
Evelyn Mandel
"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently,
his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
Golo Mann
"...the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a
way of life which is not rooted in his own powers."
Rollo May
“Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love
yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice
versa."
Dr. Karl Menninger
"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that
is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."
Clark Moustakas
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position
gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
Colin Powell
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
Chinese Proverb
"To change and to improve are two different things."
German Proverb
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or
strange that self may prove to be."
May Sarton
"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backward without
turning around."
Henry David Thoreau
"Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own
gifts."
Jean Vanier
"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."
Jean Vanier
"Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries."
Voltaire
"A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his
doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of
success."
Alec Waugh
