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"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
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"The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself."
"Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance."
"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing."
"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
"Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity."
"Respect yourself enough to walk away from what doesn't serve you."
"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self - respect out of the equation."
"To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first."
"Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. Respect yourself by respecting others."
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"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."
"Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them."
"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."
"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning."
"Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him."
"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."
"At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery."
"Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness."
"They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
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