self-respect

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is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price. Joan Didion

is being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

is having the courage of one's mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to commit adultery, they do not then go running, in an access of bad conscience, to receive absolution from the wronged parties... nor do they complain unduly of the unfairness, the undeserved embarrassment, of being named co-respondent.

Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to commit adultery, they do not then go running, in an access of bad conscience, to receive absolution from the wronged parties... nor do they complain unduly of the unfairness, the undeserved embarrassment, of being named co-respondent. In brief, people with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve... they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues. Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

is impossible for a man of acute sensibility.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all' Fyodor Dostoevsky

is not reacting to insults that were not intended.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

is not to drown in self-reproach over things, but to, as it were, assign unanswered letters their proper weight, and to free ourselves from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves.

It is the phenomenon sometimes called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something... that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the specter of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that answering it becomes out of the question. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home. Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

has the power to to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves-- there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Joan Didion

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