“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

“The most common reason that relationships fall apart is because of safety. On a subconscious level, even though our relationships grant us a sense of safety, if we perceive that something about a relationship makes us unsafe, we care more about our own safety than we care about the other person’s experience and we care more about our own safety than we care about the health of the relationship itself.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”

Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics

“We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.”

Noah Levine (1971) American Buddhist teacher

“I, the Prime Minister of Israel, care more about Palestinians than their own leaders do. Israel cares more about Palestinians than their own leaders do.”

Benjamín Netanyahu (1949) Israeli prime minister

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

“There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.”

Jon Ronson book So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.”

John Flavel (1627–1691) English Presbyterian clergyman

“What more our folly shows,
Than while we others seek, ourselves to lose?”

John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter