When I let go of what I am I become what I might be.
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
After all it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without, and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence though deficient in personal charms than I have been by the most regular beauty.