Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Do no violence to yourself, respect in yourself the oscillations of feeling.”
- Source
- Amiel's Journal
- Date
- 1852
- English wording
- Mary Augusta Ward — Translator · from French
Meaning of “Do no violence to yourself, respect in yourself…”
Self-respect here means refusing to force inner life into an artificial uniformity; changing feelings can be observed and treated with patience instead of self-aggression.
Where does it come from?
Amiel's Journal, entry dated April 28, 1852, in Mary Augusta Ward’s public-domain translation; Amiel counsels patience with the movement of feeling.
