#ness

Holiness was always something richly dim. ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#religion #religion

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#awareness #bad #fight #good #oppression

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#respect #respect

That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from "whence" he came because winning him over will have no benefit. At the end of the day, happines, joy...and yes...your emotional stability...those comprise the only measuring stick you really need to have. ↗

— Sherry Argov

#love #relationship #self-respect #love

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#greatness #past #respect

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect. ↗

— Maery Rubin

#self-respect #respect

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#french #remorse #respect #respect

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. ↗

— John Updike

#been #conditioned #costs #newness #them

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself. ↗

— John Hughes

#pretention #pretentiousness #respect #restaurants #snobbery