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"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." "Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deepburning, unquenchable." "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one Johann could ever Wolfgang Von have loved as Goethe much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again." "For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; Virginia Woolf two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has
two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together" "Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God." "We always come back to our first love." "When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal." "Love works a different way in different
Fyodor Dostoevski
Etienne
Gary Zukav
John Dryden
minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds." "For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God." "People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel." "To fail to love is not to exist at all." "There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."
Johannes Tauler
Irwin Federman
Jean Anouilh
Sting
"Love is stronger than justice." "I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally."
Zelda Fitzgerald
"If we are to judge of love by its Francois De consequences, La it more nearly Rochefoucauld resembles hatred than friendship."
Viktor E. Frankl
human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward." "Life is a gamble at terrible odds, Tom if it were a bet, Stoppard you would not take it." "People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age."
Henry Giles
"The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and George humor. Neither Santayana prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the
world." "The truest end Source of life, is to find Unknown the life that doesn't end." "It is not the years in your life Adlai E. but the life in Stevenson your years that counts!" "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
Robert Fulghum
"The life of man is a journey; a journey that Oliver must be Goldsmith traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation."
attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." "No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."
Barbara De Angelis
"We are Francois De never so La happy nor so Rochefoucauld unhappy as we imagine." "Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky."
Solon
"Happiness is a ball after which we run Johann wherever it Wolfgang Von rolls, and we Goethe push it with our feet when it stops." "We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more
persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light." "We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once." "Happiness is unrepentant pleasure."
Alexander Smith
Socrates
"To live we must conquer Henri Frederic incessantly, Amiel we must have the courage to be happy." "Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and Joseph Farrall while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation." "If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness." "Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for
Johann G. Fichte
Robertson Davies
anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained."
Dalai Lama
Democritus
Nathaniel Hawthorne
experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept."
Bernard M. Baruch
Ambrose Bierce
Basil O'Connor
Peace Pilgrim
Peter Nicols
dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan." "In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be Swami willing to pass Brahmanada through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages." A. J. Muste "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." "The best way to end a war is not to begin it."
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"To be prepared for war is one of George the most Washington effective means of preserving peace." "There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price Woodrow T. can be put in Wilson one word. One cannot pay the price of selfrespect." "War can only be abolished through war, Mao Zedong and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to
take up the gun." "It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences." "Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away." "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves."
Harry S. Truman
Robert Fulghum
Albert Camus
"War can only be abolished Mao Zedong through war, and in order to get rid of
Alfred Adler
W. H. Auden
Burrhus Frederic
Skinner
change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters." "Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top." "Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." "What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as
Francis Beaumont
George W. Crane
Leonard Cohen
they pass each other in this flood?" "Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us."
Albert Einstein
"Perfect behavior is Cesare Pavese born of complete indifference." "Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants
Noam Chomsky
defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion." "We like to Francois De see others, La but don't like Rochefoucauld others to see through us." "I don't say we all ought to Orson Welles misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could." "The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition." "We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon."
Proverb
Doug Horton
"Be nice to people on your way up because Wilson Mizner you'll meet them on your way down." Emma "I place a
Thompson
high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit." "It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself." "What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir." "When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in
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E. G. Stakman
believing that he has become civilized." If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so."
Richard D. Rosen