Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect – you don’t call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong.
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
Our work is to get to the place where we like ourselves and are concerned when we judge ourselves too harshly or allow others to silence us. The wilderness demands this level of self-love and self-respect.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
‘I like music,’ she said slowly, ‘because when I hear it, I ... I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play, I’m not ... for once, I’m not destroying. I’m creating.’