The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing.
We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.
People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.
I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.
This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act.
I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.
It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.
Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart.
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