Horton

Famous quotes containing the word horton:

    By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)