“Respect and fairness, values that are increasingly rare in the world. They belong exclusively to who is a beautiful person.”

“Who knows how to give true love belongs exclusively to that rarity of living beings, capable of changing the world.”

“Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.”

“Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.”

“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?”

“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.”

“Neoliberalism is an ideology that reduces all values to money values. The worth of a thing is the price of the thing. The worth of a person is the wealth of the person. Neoliberalism tells you that you are valuable exclusively in terms of your activity in the marketplace.”

“The path of spirituality is a conscious journey of a person leading to a life imbued with humanistic values, self-realization, a profound understanding of the world, and the experience of beauty.”

“Every person wants to be valued.
Every person wants to be respected.
Every person wants to be appreciated.
Every person wants to be understood.”

“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”