If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and … - Max Ehrmann

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If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Max Ehrmann

Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life · September 5, 1995 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired"). He often wrote on spiritual themes.

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Sleep quietly, now that the gates of the day are closed. Leave tomorrow’s problems for tomorrow. The earth is peaceful. Only the stars are abroad; and they will not cause you any trouble.

Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.

Tolerate the dull: they too have their story

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. - Max Ehrmann

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