“love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. one gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. it is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love”
“those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. they make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and i know it – the total passion for the total height – you are unable of anything else“
“it only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. where there’s service, there is someone being served. the man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master“
“from the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man: the function of his reasoning mind”
“why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? it’s the hardest thing in the world to do what we want. and it takes the greatest kind of courage“
“in the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. in the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title” “do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. check your road and the nature of your battle. the world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours”
all words, thoughts, quotes and opinions are from the mind of ms. ayn rand
friday 6th september 2013 – outside the nordstrom’s parking garage – walnut creek california
in memory of ms. hanna reitsch, 29th march 1912 – 24th august 1979
peace
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