acceptance

Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

Oh I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!

People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.

Ultimately love is self approval.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.