Echoes

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Become what you are.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.