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Joseph Butler quote: "Happiness does not consist in self-love."

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. Samuel Alexander
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid. Branford Marsalis
...most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order.... In the immutability of their surroundings, the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; ... a casual stroll or a casual spree on shore suffices to unfold for him the secret of a whole continent, and generally he finds the secret not worth knowing. Joseph Conrad
I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things. Vince Vaughn
Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie. Ron Perlman
I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music. Norah Jones
Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him. Yukio Mishima
In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market. Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler
I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix. Helena Bonham Carter
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If only you could keep them that way: cast in amber, never growing up Jodi Picoult
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In your business or in your close relationships, if you want people to perform Herculean feats on your behalf, they must know that you care about them. George Foreman
I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Neither dog nor man liked the look of my stick, however, and the matter fell through. Relations were strained after that, and further inquiries out of the question. Arthur Conan Doyle