„We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.“

— Malcolm X

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„It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.“
— W. H. Auden
„A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.“
— Jane Austen
„To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived!“
— Emil M. Cioran
„We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.“
— Richard Rohr
„What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….“
— Stephen King