Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.
True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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