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- Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
- U Thant
- Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
- Dr. Karl A. Menninger
- By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
- Jackie Mason (1934 - )
- You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
- Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure"
- Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
- Rufus Choate
- He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
- Karl Shapiro
- There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
- Zona Gale
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