Look at yourself with compassion. Enjoy your curious little idiosyncrasies. Acknowledge that it's just fine to be you. Let it be all right that you're different from everybody else. Like the old Yiddish adage says, "If I be like him, then who will be like me?"
Being easy on yourself means that you accept yourself as you are, that you forgive yourself for your mistakes and go on, lovingly acknowledging you foibles, your idiosyncratic style. Only by being gentle with yourself can you also be good-natured and forgiving with the person you love. So give yourself a break; decide that you're just fine exactly as you are.
— Daphne Rose Kingma, The Book of Love