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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.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
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.
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove read more
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had read more
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.