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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. read more
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in read more
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
For 'tis impossible
Hate to return with love.
[It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]
For 'tis impossible
Hate to return with love.
[It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you read more
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.