Eric Hoffer Quotes on Self acceptance
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God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: 'I am what I am.' Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: 'I am what I am not.'
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Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
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The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
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You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.