I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Now is the accepted time.

For we that live please must please to live.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.