"Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself."

-- Bell Hooks

#Love Quotes #Giving Quotes #Self Love Quotes

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
“It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.”
“As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.”
“The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.”
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
“I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going to make it 18 for the next one.”
“I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.”

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