This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

All mankind love a lover.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I love women with attitude.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

I always wanted to be loved.