A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois De La RochefoucauldRead
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you?
At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.
We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.
You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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