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Ayn Rand Quotes

Ayn Rand quotes

Russian Writer February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982

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When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience. Ayn Rand
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul. Ayn Rand
Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are."- John Gault Ayn Rand
Love is reverence, worship, glory, and the upward glance. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love–the total passion for the total height–you’re incapable of anything less.. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor..."
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. Ayn Rand
But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the pride I may take in the price I have paid for that love. Then the wreckage will not become a funeral mount above me, but will serve as a height I have climbed to attain a wider field of vision. Ayn Rand
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live Ayn Rand
In spiritual issues--(by "spiritual" I mean: "pertaining to man's consciousness")--a trader is a man who does not seek to be loved for his weaknesses or flaws, only for his virtues, and who does not grant his love to the weaknesses or the flaws of others, only to their virtues. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not..."
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity. Ayn Rand
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody. Ayn Rand
I was thinking of people who say that happiness is impossible on earth. Look how hard they all try to find some joy in life. Look how they struggle for it. Why should any living creature exist in pain? By what conceivable right can anyone demand that a human being exist for anything but for his own joy? Every one of them wants it. Every part of him wants it. But they never find it. I wonder why. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing..."
Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice..."
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the..."
But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this..."
There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours Ayn Rand

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