“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

—Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959

“It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit. ”

—Eartha Kitt

“I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.”

—Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” 

—Michel de Montaingne, from The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics, 1993)

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce lovein the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is of little love.” - Erich Fromm

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is of little love.”

—Erich Fromm

“All I beg of you is don't let anybody else read those letters. But one thing emerges whole and lucid - how very good you were to me, how very trying I was - all agog, all aquiver: and so full of storms and rhapsodies.”

—Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

Oscar Wilde
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