“Why do you want the approval of others who don't even approve of themselves?”
Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician
The Secret of Letting Go
“Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
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As cited in: Kay Larson, " The thin man https://books.google.nl/books?id=ZckBAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70," New York Magazine, 7 October 1985, p. 70 <br class="br">Giacometti, 1985
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Ibid., p. 248
The Book of Disquiet
Original: E seja o nosso desprezo para os que trabalham e lutam e o nosso ódio para os que esperam e confiam.
Gregory Maguire book Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
James Bovard (1956) American journalist
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“The "rights of man" are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so.”
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
Letter to the Rev. J.P. Wright (1879), from The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?
Hays translation
VIII, 53
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
