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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.
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way read more
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art read more
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs read more
One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24].
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
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.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
