You cannot love anyone or anything unless you first respect them. The first person you need to respect is yourself. To begin to gain self-respect ask yourself. “What do I respect about myself?” To gain respect for others, even those you may dislike, ask yourself “What do I respect about them?”
Love begins with our thoughts. We become what we think about. Loving thoughts create loving experience and loving relationships. Affirmations can change our beliefs and thoughts about ourselves and others. If we want to love someone, we need to consider their needs and desires. Thinking about your ideal partner will help you recognize him/her when you meet him/her.
Author: Ralph Ellison
Book: Invisible Man
Year: 1952
Quote: “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
Author: Joseph Conrad
Book: Heart of Darkness
Year: 1899
Quote: “I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself not for others — what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
Author: Jules Verne
Book: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Year: 1871
Quote: “As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Book: Man and Superman
Year: 1903
Quote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Book: The Road
Year: 2006
Quote: “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
Author: Stephen King
Book: Different Seasons
Year: 1982
Quote: “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Book: In A Free State
Year: 1971
Quote: “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
Author: William Faulkner
Book: The Sound and the Fury
Year: 1929
Quote: “Clocks slay time … time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
Author: Haruki Murakami
Book: Kafka on the Shore
Year: 2002
Quote: “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book: The Scarlet Letter
Year: 1850
Quote: “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Author: Charles Dickens
Book: Great Expectations
Year: 1890
Quote: “We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
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