You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.... the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment.... And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Quotes about self-abandonment (2 Quotes)
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned it remains intact.