Quotes with self-love

Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 2974.

  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thornton T. Munger The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Santayana The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare The hind that would be mated with the lion must die of love.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • J. G. Ballard The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
    A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ray Bradbury The important thing is to be in love with something.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Aldous Huxley The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Barbara Deming The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
    We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bede Griffiths The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Ben Nicholson The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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