A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.
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When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.
To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.
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