"Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love...."

-- Ayn Rand

#Selfish Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Love You Quotes

“The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity”

Source : Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.130, Seal Press
“Eat your pinkberry and enjoy life.”
“One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.”
“The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real innovation thatâ€™s going to be rewarded will be on things like, letâ€™s convert our computers from being tools to being companions. Letâ€™s convert our computers from being utilitarian to being enlightening. These are human needs.”
“... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.”
“Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.”

Source : Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
“Weve got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmers son. There was a time when I didnt, when I rebelled against it, but theres certainly that sort of work ethic within me.”

Source : "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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