Showing posts with label self acceptance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self acceptance. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Post #2367

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
—Benjamin Franklin

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Post #955

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Post #938

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.
—David Graydon

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Post #857

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
—Dr. Seuss

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Post #815

I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware, I sit content,
And if each and all be aware, I sit content.
—Walt Whitman

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Post #477

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.
—Noel Coward

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Post #355

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
—Erasmus

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied...

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