It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Tags: Care, Without, Themselves
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch
Ray Bradbury
Anne Campbell
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld