Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille BallRead
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
Interpretation
Prioritizing self-love leads to a harmonious life and positive relationships.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-love as a foundation for a fulfilling life. By recognizing and valuing oneself first, individuals create a positive environment that influences their relationships and overall well-being, allowing everything else in life to align more harmoniously.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-care, one might start with this quote.
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'
Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if_x000D_ you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.
The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.
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