Erda Adam

“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
― Henry Ford

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays