Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes on Self
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'Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with personal capacities.'
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'Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.'
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'Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.'
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'Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.'
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'Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world- making the most of one's best. '
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'Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.'