
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
- Topic: Love, Self, Self-esteem
- Location: Horseshoe Bend
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
› Rumi
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
› Rumi
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
› Victor Hugo
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
› Helen Keller
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
› C. S. Lewis
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
› Mary Baker Eddy
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
› Thich Nhat Hanh
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
› G. K Chesterton
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
› James Allen
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
› George Sand
The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.
› Albert Schweitzer
If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
› Leo Tolstoy
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
› Martha Graham
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
› Friedrich Nietzsche
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
› Mark Twain
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
› Friedrich Nietzsche
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.
› Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
› T. S. Eliot
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
› Mark Twain
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
› E. E. Cummings
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
› Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
› Christopher Morley
