"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

Keller, Helen on selfishness   

"Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on selfishness   

"He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package."

Unknown, Source on selfishness   

"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves."

Whichcote, Benjamin on selfishness
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"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on conceit   

"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."

Eliot, George on conceit   

"It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care."

Eliot, George on conceit   

"Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."

Forman, Max L. on conceit
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"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on conceit
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"He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on conceit   

"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on conceit
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"Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest."

Shakespeare, William on conceit
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"Conceit is incompatible with understanding."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on conceit
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"Don't count your chickens before they are hatched."

Aesop on expectation
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"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."

Anderson, Greg on expectation
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"Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level..."

Caddy, Eileen on expectation
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

Eliot, George on expectation
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"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

Horace on expectation
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"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Perls, Fritz Dr. on expectation
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"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."

Miller, Shannon on expectation
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"We expect everything and are prepared for nothing."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on expectation   

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."

Waitley, Denis on expectation   

"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on disappointments
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

Blake, William on friends and friendship
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely"

Brown, Pam on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship
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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

Byrnes, James F. on friends and friendship
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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"He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front."

Levinson, Leonard Louis on friends and friendship   

"I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses"

Mansfield, Katherine on friends and friendship   

"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."

Arendt, Hannah on loyalty   

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."

Pope, Alexander on loyalty
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"Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living."

Royce, Josiah on loyalty
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on loyalty
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"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on loyalty
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"Every harlot was a virgin once."

Blake, William on innocence