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- We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
- What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
- Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
- One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
- William Hale White
- To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
- Nancy Friday
- When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
- It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
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