Louis Kronenberger Quotes

I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

I learned to laugh at myself a little more, and I realized that beautiful things can be made out of mistakes.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

I hate taking myself seriously. It drives me crazy!

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Being a businessman, you want to invest your time and your heart into growth and a legacy, and sometimes it's about going over there and getting it. But you don't have to lose yourself.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.

I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Grow within the flow.

Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

The jester is brother to the sage.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.