“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”

“The highest mandate of power is to ensure that it is never abused.”

Titon Rahmawan

“The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

“Judges are philologists of the highest order.”

Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet (1783–1870) British lawyer and Tory politician

“Patience is the highest form of self-control.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

“The only abuse of drugs is the control of drugs by other people.... The only control is self-control.”

Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist

“To love the carnal self means to love the body-mind. I cannot abuse my body with alcohol, stress, and self-indulgence and still claim to love my self.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher