Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

I try not to give advice unless people ask me.

I think 'Normal People' is a fantastic piece of art for conversations around consent. It shows that you don't have to do anything you don't want to do and looks at respecting the other person.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

I'm all about respect and I never get outside myself as far as calling people out.

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. I mean, what we really want.

His attitude had always been that if a woman clearly indicated that she did not want anything more to do with him, he would go on his way. Not respecting such a message would in his eyes, show a lack of respect for her.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?

Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.

I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

We teach people how to treat us.