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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in read more
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His read more
If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, "Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world!" And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship read more
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by read more
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to read more
Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.
