When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.
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Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" Dress yourself in such a way that it shows that you love yourself. DEBASISH MRIDHA That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure so... C.S. LEWIS If you don't like someone, the way he holds his spoon will make you furious; if you do like him, he ... IRVING BECKER Love her the way you crave to be loved. PIERRE ALEX JEANTY Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet s... LAMAR ODOM You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want... TONI MORRISON Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the bu... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Why let someone you don't respect influence the way you think of yourself? If you don't respect them... JUSTINE His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come clo... GEORGE COHEN When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? JODI PICOULT When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi... AUGUST WILSON Dress confidently in clothes that make you feel great about yourself. When you look better you feel ... SUSAN C. YOUNG I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad da... JULIANNE HOUGH If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person... MEISTER ECKHART When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use t... DON MIGUEL RUIZ That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you... GIANNI VERSACE I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't... KHALED HOSSEINI Once someone loves you that much, loves you more than you deserve, you can’t go back to being love... TIFFANY REISZ I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you ... KAREN MARIE MONING How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to y... PROVERB If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b... LEONARDO DA VINCI If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b... LEONARDO DA VINCI It's his way or no way, ... You have to dress right. You are going to have to shave. JAMES DAVIS It was tough to admit to yourself that someone else had more courage than you would in the same situ... JODI PICOULT I love you like the devil loves his pitchfork. I love you like the angel loves his wings. I love you... ROBERT THIER That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion... GIANNI VERSACE Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her... JOYCE BROTHERS Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her... DR. JOYCE BROTHERS I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pa... GREG BEHRENDT Secret Number One: Dump the Fucking Assholes. Dump 'em! There are people in your life who make you f... CLINTON KELLY, I HATE EVERYONE, EXCEPT YOU You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself. EDIE BRICKELL Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love. DYLAN LAUREN Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything? KIM KARDASHIAN A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. JOSH BILLINGS A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself JOSH BILLINGS Practice being kinder to yourself. Practice celebrating your accomplishments. Practice complimenting... AKIROQ BROST And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL When they don’t love you the way you want to, you mourn that for however long you need to. But the... CAITLYN SIEHL The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you ... JOHN IRVING When you praise someone you call yourself his equal JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in lo... JAY-Z If you have notoriety, you can dress any way you want to dress. That's the way it is. I just lik... RIC FLAIR It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must ... C. JOYBELL C. You do what you think is right, but when you put yourself out there, you know you're going to get cr... BRADFORD COHEN The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come... JEFF BRIDGES You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. EDITH HEAD I let Richard walk out on me. I think he’d have gone anyway, but I just sat on the floor and watch... LAURELL K. HAMILTON I am not sure anyone loves you if you hate yourself but many will hate you if you love yourself. VIKRANT PARSAI If someone talked to you the way you talk to yourself , you would have kicked them out of you life a... CARLA GORDAN How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't se... HOLLY BLACK There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything&... TOM DELONGE Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have ... SAM RAYBURN Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. BENJAMIN SPOCK Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. BENJAMIN SPOCK Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. BENJAMIN SPOCK Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unle... GOLDIE HAWN When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, ... MORTEN TYLDUM True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself. NERISSA IRVING When a man loves you, you can tell by the way he touches you. His hands that have been lifting heavy... JESSICA BASCOM You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in ... PETER S. BEAGLE the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to l... MIGUEL RUIZ When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself. TOM MASSON Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things ... B.J. NOVAK I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian f... CECILIA BARTOLI The thing about being selfish is that you don't care if someone is at your feet begging you to stay ... MIA ASHER Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? ABRAHAM POLONSKY Believe in your abilities.Your negative thoughts about yourself send a signal throughout the world t... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nai... LAURA BENANTI If you don't love yourself, you won't be happy with yourself. If you can't love yourself, you can't ... KEMI SOGUNLE Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The way you dress is not who you are. It's not who you hang out with. ... You shouldn't have to worr... MICHAEL DALE If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself. TERRY PRATCHETT I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being a... FREDDIE HIGHMORE If somebody says you: "I love you" Just imagine that if one of the creations can love you, seem... SALSABEEL He always told the truth. If you asked him a question, he was going to give you the answer. You migh... ENOS CABELL When you fall into the gutter you tell yourself that you can climb out. Then you notice that you’r... ALEX AVRIO You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it.... RICHELLE MEAD I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that whe... GLEN HANSARD If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or b... KEMI SOGUNLE You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r... TONI MORRISON If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who ne... BILLY JOEL You can't be all things to all people. I'm sure if Herb had his way, he'd like to have more rebounds... DAVE LEITAO You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or ... CHRIS CRUTCHER For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love. CHANG-RAE LEE It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and the right way and follo... KATJA MILLAY You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your... C. JOYBELL C. If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve... TOM ROBBINS I always tell the quarterback, we don't want you to make a big tackle, just get in his way, trip him... CLIFF HITE If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're givi... JEANNE MOREAU When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else. ALLISON ANDERS
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When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT