“You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.”

Source: Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

21.07.2001 - p.445
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

"My Neighbor's Son"
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Source: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female

Christensen (2011) in: Harvard Business Review (2011) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. p. 12
2010s

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 17–18

"Best Friend"; written and sung by Reddy
Lyrics, "I Don't Know How To Love Him"(1971)

The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.
Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God. If you strain yourself too much you'll have to ask God to patch you up. And for all you know, patching you up may take time that it was planned to use some other way.
BUT... overstrain yourself now and then. For this reason: The things you create easily and joyously will not continue to come easily and joyously unless you yourself are getting bigger all the time. And when you overstrain yourself you are assisting in the creation of a new self — if you get what we mean.

Source: The Truth About Forever