Self And Other Quotes

“All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

“We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

“Love yourself,love your uniqueness.
You are the only person can be true to yourself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In every important way we are such secrets from each other, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live. We take fortuitous resemblances among us to be actual likeness, because those around us have also fallen heir to the same customs, trade in the same coin, acknowledge, more or less, the same notions of decency and sanity. But all that really just allows us to coexist with the inviolable, untraversable, and utterly vast spaces between us.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Let us have the courage of our admitted ignorance, of our doubts and uncertainties. At least we can try to discover what others ... require, by ... making it possible for ourselves to know men as they truly are, by listening to them carefully and sympathetically, and understanding them and their lives and their needs...”
― Isaiah Berlin

“Of course, if someone hurts me or my body, it's not funny. I get mad, no kidding. But that's if it's me. If it's someone else, it's funny. Why? Because me -- that's me; and him -- that's not me, it's him. But the Oldeners say: Oh, horrors!”
― Tatyana Tolstaya, The Slynx