“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Facing yourself can be intimidating, but that is only until it is liberating.”
Elizabeth Alraune
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely”
Carl Gustav Jung
“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others”
Buddha
“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.”
Dalai Lama
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
Clifton Fadiman
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
