Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform or pause and reflect.

When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesnt really feel like a sacrifice.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

To lose confidence in ones body is to lose confidence in oneself.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Dont wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.

Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll kip resentment far away.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is fearless.

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain.

History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.

Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Do not compare yourself to others. if you do so you are insulting yourself.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.