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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last read more
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to read more
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as read more
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v.7.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v.7.
To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be read more
To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and never ever try to understand her !.
You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The read more
You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- read more
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
