Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; You will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
It\'s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.
Edmund Cooper
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
William Clark
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
He who hates himself is not humble.
Emil Cioran
He gave me no sign. I was never the sort to receive portents, or to delude myself that I had. Silence was always my portion, in return for my prayers.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.
Sri Chinmoy
To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.
Sri Chinmoy
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense he is always satisfied with himself.
Napolon Bonaparte