“Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.” GivingSelfHardEyeFacesQualityHairShapesClothesSizeOneselfTreasureLengthYour Face Author:Phylicia Rashad
“To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.” GivingPoorHellRichOneselfDamnExile Author:Eliphas Levi
“Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.” WorldGivingLastsReligionOneselfFollowers Author:C. S. Lewis
“When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.” GivingSelfChristianBeliefClearMoralityGiving UpOneselfSpiteLatterAgain And AgainEvidentChristian Morality Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?” IfsGivingShouldHas BeensMomentsDreamRealityWonderPossibilityFoolLimitsGiving UpShould HaveOneselfRelativeCosmicNow And ThenDeliciousDeprivedExquisiteShould Have BeenVacuumsStretchingLatentCerebralFlatulence Book:Her Brothers Her Journal Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.” MenGivingHandsDifficultLove IsConflictOneselfImpulse Book:Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations