As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Jonathan Swift
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SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
CHAMFORT For all true love is grounded on esteem.
GEORGE VILLIERS Self-love, self-esteem.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who ...
AMITY GAIGE Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.
STEPHEN RICHARDS You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. ...
WINNIE HARLOW Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it
GLORIA STEINEM Without self-esteem and respect for others, you cannot be true to your own values.
AULIQ-ICE Without self-esteem and respect for others, you cannot be true to your own values.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Self care, self love.
Self esteem, self confidence
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
WARREN W. WIERSBE There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
BRYANT H. MCGILL There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
BRYANT MCGILL Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these tw...
EUSTACE BUDGELL Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk witho...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual es...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
ELLEN KEY Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KHALIL GIBRAN Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Inculcate virtue of positive self esteem to live a vibrant life. Low self-esteem is associated with ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love th...
TRACY MCMILLAN I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of commun...
PAUL WELLSTONE Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love
ELLEN KEY When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is ex...
TAE YUN KIM Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.
MARTY RUBIN Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
FRENCH SAYING Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.
LEMONY SNICKET Poetry is an act of love.
Without love life is impossible.
Without poetry love has no ex...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
DREW BARRYMORE Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHER Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHER Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.
TUPAC SHAKUR No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to th...
IRIS MURDOCH The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is b...
RUMI Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
ELBERT HUBBARD Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death
ELBERT HUBBARD Love without sacrifice is like schooling without education.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We are faithful as long as we love, but you
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LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH «Sarò nel programma di protezione testimoni,» disse Jack.
«Avrò un nome diverso, non so d...
JANE SEVILLE Riprendo a correre, a tutta velocità. Non ho più paura di nulla. Non ho più paura di nessuno. Non...
MAKOTO SHINKAI Love is too weak a word for what I feel. I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F’s...
~RAM CHANDER(RC) Le etichette possono essere riduttive. A volte bisogna smettere di pensare a genere e orientamento e...
JAY NORTHCOTE To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
RITA MAE BROWN Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
DOUG HORTON It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appro...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
CRISS JAMI The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit ...
ROLAND ALLEN To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.
JAKE MILLER A life without love is like a year without summer.
SWEDISH PROVERB LIFE WITHOUT LOVE IS JUST LIKE A CONE WITHOUT ICECREAM
MARKHANDEYA The measure of love is to love without measure.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Love is not...
~ Words, without action
~ Action, without intent
~ Intent, without heart
~ Heart, wit...
BETHANY SAXTON Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and...
TOBA BETA Work without love is slavery.
MOTHER TERESA Love without attachment is light.
NORMAN O. BROWN Love without conversation is impossible.
MORTIMER ADLER Love without attachment is light.
NORMAN O BROWN Friendship is love without wings.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Love is vanity without sacrifice.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Love without demonstration is fake.
FRANCIS MATHEW Without love life is impossible.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Love without expression is useless.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Hope without love is hopeless.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Morale is self-esteem in action
AVERY WEISMAN Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you?
SABRINA WARD HARRISON You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, ...
SWEDISH PROVERB Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-e...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more fai...
SAINT IGNATIUS There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without ...
DWIGHT L. MOODY Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing
MADELINE DE SCUDERY Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
MADELEINE DE SCUDéRY Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released ...
ELIZABETH EULBERG Positive Self-esteem makes us feel confident, consider ourselves valuable, respect ourselves, and th...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern f...
ERIN MCCARTHY Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is difficult to esteem a man as he desires to be esteemed
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE A life without love is a sinful and immoral thing.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
JONATHAN SWIFT Self esteem is virtue which makes one responsible and mature person to admit a mistake,if committed....
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN Love without hope will not survive.
Love without faith changes nothing.
Love gives power t...
TOBA BETA We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you
TAYLOR SWIFT Beauty is no more than self-esteem.
RANA AHMAD KHAN There is no love without suffering.
ARIELLE DOMBASLE Friendship is Love without his wings!
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
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