4 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Self acceptance

Eric Hoffer quotes on self acceptance

41. 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.'

182. Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

204. The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

227. 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.