„If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.“

— Ayn Rand

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„Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.“
— James Baldwin
„I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.“
— Ayn Rand
„You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Through such impressions one gathers oneself, wins oneself back from the exacting multiplicity, which speaks and chatters there (and how talkative it is!), and one slowly learns to recognize the very few Things in which something eternal endures that one can love and something solitary that one can gently take part in.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke