“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
August Wilson
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.”
Thomas C. Haliburton
“If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?”
Blaise Pascal
