Echoes

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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.

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

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

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

When you are content to be simply yourself, everybody will respect you.

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

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

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Though the whole world should praise him, he would not be stimulated to greater endeavour, and though the whole world should condemn him, he would not be depressed. So fixed was he in the difference between the internal judgement of himself and the external judgement of others.

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

You should rather please yourself than the people; take thought for the quality, not the number, of judgements made about you.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

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

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

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

What does your conscience say? — You should become who you are.

Become what you are.

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

It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

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

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