Charles Horton Cooley Quotes about Giving

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If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of

If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

Charles Horton Cooley

Hero, Self, Giving

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

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

Self, Giving, Feelings

Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.167, University of Chicago Press

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

Peace, Attitude, Giving

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.251, Transaction Publishers