“There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.”
Oscar Wilde
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
Barbara De Angelis
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore