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“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
Joss Whedon
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind”
Theophile Gautier
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate”
William Arthur Ward
“Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Carl Sandburg
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire”
Dale Carnegie
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
Katharine Hepburn
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
Blaise Pascal
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.”
Anais Nin
“If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it”
Albert Einstein
