When we are comfortable with ourselves and have accepted ourselves wholly, others will also find us approachable and easier to accept us.

Haemin Sunim

If you want to change something about yourself, you need to be willing to take full responsibility for yourself. If you are going to hide behind stories and excuses, it won't work!

Akiroq Brost

Stoicism helps us keep a better ledger of what things are truly worth. It places the highest value on honesty, on self-respect, on tranquility and freedom and security.

Ryan Holiday

Getting rid of people who disrespect you is the only way you learn to respect yourself. Family, friends, lovers, whatever. They gotta go.

Ed Latimore

You will only ever be taken as seriously as you take yourself.

Jack Butcher

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible.

William S. Burroughs