#liking

I... There was a time when I stopped talking. Just like you. My reasons were a little bit different, but I think the feelings of being ashamed of myself and hating myself are the same. Here, it says to "like yourself." What does that mean? Good things- how are you supposed to find them? I only know things that I hate about myself. Because that's all I know, I hate myself. But even if you force yourself to find good things, it feels so empty. It doesn't work that way. People like your teacher just don't get it. I think when you hear someone say they like you, for the first time, then you can begin to like yourself. I think when someone accepts you, for the first time, you feel like you can forgive yourself a little. You can begin to face your fears with courage. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#liking-oneself #self-esteem #yuki #courage

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#getting #happiness #liking #success #success is

It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore. ↗

— Carol Kendall

#life

You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents, and the particularly grotesque equation of diamond jewelry with everlasting devotion. The message, in each case, is that if you love somebody you should buy stuff. A related phenomenon is the ongoing transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb 'to like' from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse: from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial culture's substitution for loving. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#like #liking #love #love

Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#love #love

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape. ↗

— Eric Bana

#bottle #come #core #easily #essence

A person is born with a liking for profit. ↗

— Xun Zi

#liking #person #profit

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. ↗

— Xun Zi

#any #beautiful #born #desires #ears

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'. ↗

— Chris Brown

#about #am #anything #because #being

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#comedy #lead #liking #people #really