„Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.“

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— Audre Lorde

Quelle: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Letzte Aktualisierung 10. März 2022.

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US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Aktivistin 1934 - 1992

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„Jupiter: I gave you the liberty to serve me.
Orestes: That is possible, but it has turned against you and there is nothing either one of us can do about it.“

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— Jean Paul Sartre, The Flies

Act 3
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„Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.“

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— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

„I can do nothing for you but work on myself… you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!“

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— Ram Dass, buch Be Here Now

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„You could call me antisocial, I’ve called myself that sometimes too, but I just prefer to be alone, and that’s nothing against you.“

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— Dawud Wharnsby Canadian musician 1972

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Blue Walls and The Big Sky (1995)

„Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know
Myself as simply me. I burn with love
Unto myself, and bury me in love.
The centre is within me and its wonder
Lies as a circle everywhere about me.
Joy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me.“

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— Attar of Nishapur Persian Sufi poet 1145 - 1221

"The Triumph of the Soul" as translated by Margaret Smith in The Persian Mystics

„Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.“

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— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

„I cannot come to be fully human unless I have received myself as a gift and accepted myself as a gift of somebody who has, as we say today, distorted me the way you distorted me by loving me.“

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— Ivan Illich austrian philosopher and theologist 1926 - 2002

We the People interview (1996)

„In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.“

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— Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

„As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.“

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— Charles Bukowski, buch Women

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„God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don’t need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.“

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— Brennan Manning, buch The Ragamuffin Gospel

p. 9 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9
1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

„This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.“

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— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946

„I tried repeatedly to change and undergo a 'curative treatment' to no avail. I got to the conclusion that this is me, accepted myself, and moved on.“

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— Zhiar Ali Kurdish human rights activist and artist 1999

Ali discussing his joruney to self-acceptence.

„I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.“

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— William Blake English Romantic poet and artist 1757 - 1827

Attributed to William Blake by Michael J. Gelb in Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius https://books.google.nl/books?id=lCsNBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Creativity+on+Demand:+How+to+Ignite+and+Sustain+the+Fire+of+Genius%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjolMyvm6TLAhVDLQ8KHechDoIQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20myself%20do%20nothing.%20The%20Holy%20Spirit%20accomplishes%20all%20through%20me%22&f=false (2014), but cannot be retrieved in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, xxii.
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