Love is the great magnet of life, and religion is love. Love is a flower that grows in any soil. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. The World’s greatest need…is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another’s heart. Yet there is enough confidence between people to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky as mistrust. What is it you need help in relaxing and enjoying yourself? One cannot really learn to enjoy their leisure time by copying anyone. However, one can benefit tremendously by spending more time around people who seem to enjoy life and are fully mindful of their activities and interest. It is important to be around people who are vital, alive, and mostly happy in their outlook. Few things are more pleasure destroying than being around someone who is constantly down on themselves, and the World. Everyone has rough stages in life, but we have to try to do anything safe and in or power to stay happy and mindful. Also, people who like themselves tend to be accepting of other people. The secret to enjoying life is to like yourself. In it also important to be fully present with the people you spend time with. There are some rare and choice souls with whom you feel fully yourself. You know they understand you and accept you for yourself, even when you are weak, strong, silly, and wise. Honesty is the best policy.  Love and labor, two beautiful old fashions that began long ago, with the first pair in Eden; love and bottle were his taste. So fearful is love, so bashful is virginity, that neither has the courage to reveal what each languishes to make known.

The path of poetry is the direct road to love. Love, which softens the heart the most savage and obdurate tyrant, sometimes tempts the most generous mind to wander from the path that leads to virtue and honor. Love is of every age. Love, in general, arises from the pleasure which all men naturally take in whatever they judge or perceive to be good and perfect. To be wise and love is hardly granted to the gods above. Love is capricious and involuntary; reason cannot direct its choice. Love levels all distinction. Love is an encroacher. Charity and religion can be made to fit every shape. Every moment of time solicits to be employed in the important business of love. Love is an ingenious to torment as to flatter. My love is a subject to fear, but a stranger to suspicion. Antiquated people may talk of subjecting love to reason, young ones cannot. Self-love is our ruling passion. We are more able to direct the choice upon which our love is fixed than we can alter our taste for a pineapple, or a nectarine, into an aversion for those fruits, or into a liking or fondness for wormwood or rhubarb. Nothing can add to a woman’s looks like a lover. Love is the soul of harmony, the connecting chain that links the whole frame of being; it is the glory of nature, and the very perfection of humankind. A man to love one woman must love all women. The last test of highest love, passion without sensuality; love is not passion, for one may feel that for many women; not affection, for friendship demands that. Not even sympathy and comradeship; one can find either with men. As soon as a man awakens a woman’s passions, she begins to idealize him and there is no limit to the virtues he will be made to carry. If love is the very best thing in life, it is not the only thing. If a woman does not love at once, it takes a long time to teach her what love is.

The Winchester House

 You would not believe such a place exists. A mansion that is over 100 years old, has 161 rooms, with loving spiritual presences and those with an agenda to incite chaos and destruction. https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/