"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."

-- Michel de Montaigne

#Confidence Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.”

Source : John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.31, Health Communications, Inc.
“My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.”
“Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.”
“My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.”
“To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Source : "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)
“Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.”
“If you miss one day in physics, that's it.”

Source : "Family secrets (part 2)" by Chris Heath, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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