7 Margaret Fuller Quotes on Self help

Margaret Fuller quotes on self help

4. Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...

19. Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.

43. The position I early was enabled to take was one of self-reliance. And were all women as sure of their wants as I was, the result would be the same. But they are so overloaded with precepts and guardians who think that nothing is so much to be dreaded for a woman as originality of thought or character, that their minds are impeded with doubts till they lose their chance of fair, free proportions. The difficulty is to get them to the point from which they shall naturally develop self-respect, and learn self-help.

70. And dost thou seek to find the one in two? Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you.

92. I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

103. When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

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115. After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' : In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.