“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”
“It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.”
The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
Context: There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.
“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”
"Democracy and Education" http://web.archive.org/20071031084046/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.4/html/222.html, speech, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn NY (30 September 1896)
“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
“We must always have old memories and young hopes.”
Attributed to Houssaye in: Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature, Christian Herald, 1915.
“I will drive flat out all the time … I love racing.”
Henry, pg. 25
“I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.”
Je mettrais plutôt toute l'Europe d'accord que deux femmes.
Comte de Mirabeau. Esprit de Mirabeau (v.1, page 246)
“All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”
