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“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses.” — Joan Didion
To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is
potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain
indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of
either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand
forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little
perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses.