Consider yourself perfect, and everything else will be different from you, but nothing will be better, because you are the standard, the example to be followed. Admire yourself, and the world admires you...
Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's elect, with mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, longsuffering. - Colossians 3:12
Paul of Tarsus
How good it is to be loved by people who can't get enough of us. It's extraordinary to look at the people who love me and realize that they bring out the best in me...
Father Fábio de Melo
The desire to please friends is, so to speak, revenge for ambition.
Marcel Proust
Life has taught me that no one is consoled without having first consoled others; that we receive nothing without first giving.
Georges Bernanos
The poet is never entirely absorbed in his thoughts. The technician is always there.
Joseph Addison