It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.

It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation read more

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.