If she undervalues me, _x000D_ _x000D_ What care I how fair she be?
Interpretation
Self-worth is more important than external validation.
This quote expresses the idea that if someone does not appreciate you or value your worth, their outward beauty or qualities become irrelevant. It emphasizes the importance of self-respect and personal value over superficial admiration from others.
In practice
In a discussion about self-esteem and relationships.
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:_x000D_ _x000D_ The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;_x000D_ _x000D_ So, when affection yields discourse, it seems_x000D_ _x000D_ The bottom is but shallow whence they come._x000D_ _x000D_ They that are rich in words, in words discover
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
If all the world and love were young,_x000D_ _x000D_ And truth in every shepherd's tongue,_x000D_ _x000D_ These pretty pleasures might me move_x000D_ _x000D_ To live with thee, and be thy love.
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
There is no power greater than true affection.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
I don't care about fashion, I care about women.
How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
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