Echoes

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

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

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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

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

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

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

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

To find yourself, think for yourself.

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.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

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

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

My life is my message.

Become what you are.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.