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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.
Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, read more
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
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].
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with read more
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
