To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. (Quote by - Michael Korda)

She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers. (Quote by - Martha Bacon)

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. (Quote by - Jim Jarmusch)

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. (Quote by - Lorraine Hansbury)

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!. (Quote by - Bette Midler)

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt. (Quote by - Berthold Auerbach)

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing. (Quote by - Jean Kerr)

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life. (Quote by - Ellen Sue Stern)

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. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves. (Quote by - Bonaro Overstreet)

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. (Quote by - Gail Hamilton)

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.(Quote by - Jane Roberts)

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling. (Quote by - Margaret Anderson)

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Spirituality is .. the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself. (Quote by - Anonymous)

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. (Quote by - Sharon Begley)

To succeed is nothing it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. (Quote by - Marie Leneru)