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The Ideal and the Life

I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty. Aurora, in the shape of a cherry cheeked lass. It is almost impossible to withstand two enemies at once, such as wine within and beauty without. A person who admires beauty must be inconstant, for he will admire it wherever he meets with it; consequently, his mistress can only share that admiration with others. If dress is not beauty, it is frequently much more than beauty. The love of beauty is the loss of reason. Beauty is apt to depend too much on self. True beauty is seated in the mind. Beauties may be allowed to call in the assistance of affection, but ugliness and affection will never go down. If dress is not beauty, it is frequently much more than beauty. The love of beauty is the loss of reason. Beauty is apt to depend too much on itself. True beauty is seated in the mind. Beauties may be allowed to call in the assistance of affection, but ugliness and affection will never go down. Even in silence, beauty is eloquent beyond the power of words. Superior beauty claims superior respect. Here is a powerful charm in mourning beauty, which holds the generous heart almost entirely at its disposal.

If girls could only be made to understand that youth is always beautiful, they would be even prettier than they are. There is a beauty in ever family. To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. The worst of Bath was, the number of its plain women. There certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! They were infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of it! It was evident how little the women were used to the sight of anything tolerable, by the effect which a man of decent appearance produced. Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men. There is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no reliable refinement, without strengths as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy. As well might you look good fruit and blossom on a rootless and sapless tree as for charms that will endure in a feeble and relaxed nature. For a little while the blooming semblance of beauty may flourish round weakness; but it cannot bear a blast; it soon fades, even in severest sunshine. If beauty is given for the purpose of pleasing, she who pleases most is the most beautiful. 

There is, in general, nothing so insipid, so uninteresting, as a beauty. There is an invisible charm, a nameless grace which depends not on beauty, and which strikes the heart in a moment. Of all those indescribable things which influences the mind, and which are most apt to persuade, none is so powerful an orator, so feelingly eloquent, as beauty. How amiable is that beauty which has its foundation in goodness! Does not beauty constrain our admiration? In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. We can neither get beauty when we have not it; nor when we have it. All beauty is sexless in the eyes of the artist at his work (which explains why some do not have the sex; it would tarnish their image in the eyes of some). The gods themselves felt troubled at seeing the champion of the Earth so brought to his end. However, Jupiter with cheerful countenance thus addressed them: “I am pleased to see your concern, my princes, and am gratified to perceive that I am the ruler of a loyal people and that my son enjoys your favor. For although your interest in him arises from his noble deeds, yet it is not the less gratifying to me. However, now I say to you, Fear not. He who conquered all else is not to be conquered by those flames which you see blazing on Mount Oeta. Only his mother’s share in him can perish; what he derived from me is immortal. I shall take him, dead to Earth, to the heavenly shores, and I require of you all to receive him kindly. If any of you feel grieved at his attaining this honor, yet no one can deny that he has deserved it.”

Love is a more Wonderful thing than Art

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Never mind love. What is it? The dream of a few weeks. That is all its joy. The disappointment of life is its Nemesis. Who was ever successful in true love? Maybe I am just wrong for feeling the way I do, thoughts indecent, want to put those down to you. I know you have a love, I do not want to tie, when you are free at night just make those hours mine.

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I can be another lover in your life. I can be the reason you are out at night. I can be all the things you thought one might. I can be on the side and that would be alright, alright. Love just is not my thing, but half of you might be enough for two or more, you do not have to believe in me.

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Fine like expensive wine, drunk off a glass of you, I think all might be too much, so weekends for me are cool. I can be another lover in your life. I can be the other reason you are out at night. Success in love argues that love is false. True love is always despondent or tragical.

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For real true love we believe the best age is from forty five to seventy; up to that, men are generally given to mere flirting. It is as easy to love a girl, who has somethings, as one who has nothing. No, it is not; because the girls with money are scarce, and those without are plentiful.

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For love, I could give up everything, but nothing from fear. The person whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good. A man cannot understand that love which induces a woman to sacrifice her pride simply for his advantage.

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I do not mind spending some time just hanging here with you because I do not find too many people who treat me like you do. Those others all want to take me for a ride, but when I walk they talk of suicide. Some people never get beyond their stupid pride, but you can see the real me inside and I am satisfied, oh no, ohh.

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Even though the gods are crazy, even though the stars are blind, if you show me real love, baby, I will show you mine. I can make it nice and naughty, be the devil and an angel, too. Got a heart and soul and body, let us see what this love can do. Maybe I am perfect for you.

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I could be your confidant, just one of you fun friends, but I know I am not what you want if tomorrow the World ends. Why should we not be with the one we really love? Now tell me who have you been dreaming of? I and I alone, oh, no. A man cannot understand that love which induces a person to sacrifice one’s pride for his advantage.

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What does the only woman who my heart has stooped to love. What does love signify? How much real love do we ever see among married people? So you think I am bad, babe. And you keep acting like you want me. I do not need a little toy, you better turn it up just a little more. Get my attention, I am ready to go my, only intention is to give you a show.

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Light it up, I know you want it. Take a bow. Let us get high off our love. High off our love. Do you want to get high off my love? Can you hear me? I am on an Xtina trip. You from Mars, baby? The night is young, it is time to kill it. Let us turn it up, I know you really want it.

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I want to see you (oooh). Go hard as you can and let it show, you are making me dance. Tender love should show itself by tender conduct. How grand a thing it is to be equal with those whom you love! Jove smiles at lovers’ perjuries. Love and friendship know nothing of justice. The value of love is that it overlooks faults and forgives even crimes.

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Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence. Is there any inconstancy in ceasing to love when one is not loved? Is there inconstancy in changing one’s love, and in loving again? It has been difficult with me to love. The difficulty with most is not to love. In matters of love, men do not see clearly in their own affairs. He was a man who might be loved; but he was hardly a man for love.

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Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts. The safest lover ever best succeeds. Love laughs at parsons. Love’s sweet violence, my only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same. Cupid is a knavish god; he can pierce the hearts of others, and hold a shield before his own.

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We love with our ears, just as some love with their eyes, if you ever love at all. It seems to me that we never do anything else. Then you never really love. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the World calls romance.

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The World is created anew for every person who is in love. There is therefore this constant miracle of a new Heaven and a new Earth. Was there every any love worth the name that could be controlled by calculations of expediency? Was there ever a young man who could see any reasons against the possession of the woman he loved?

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If love levels ranks, it raises them too. In love, or unhappy, it is the same thing. Is anybody unhappy about another unless they are in love with them? Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness. All right, then, I will go to hell [ rather than betray a loved one].

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Lord, what a thing is Love!

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Early love is frequently ambitions in choosing its object. Love will subsists on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it. Guarded with poverty, and guided with love, love utterly subverts the course of nature in making reason give place to sense, and man to woman.

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True love hath that excellent nature in it, that it doth transform the very essence of the lover into the thing loved, uniting, and as it were incorporating it with a secret and inward working. To define love is impossible, because no words reach to the strange nature of it: they only know it, which inwardly feel it.

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Love, the refiner of invention, who will resist love must either have no wit or put out of his eyes. Can any man resist his creation? Certainly by love we are made, and to love we are made. Love to a yielding heart is a king; but to a resisting, a tyrant. Love, since thou art so changeable in men’s estates, how art thou so constant in their torments?

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Love is better than a pair of spectacles to make everything seem greater which is seen through it. Dove and love always go together. I am no player in love. I speak the language of my own heart; and have no prompter but nature.

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Affection may exist independent of esteem; nay, the same object may be lovely in one respect, and detestable in another. The mind has a surprising faculty of accommodating, and even attaching itself, in such a manner, by dint of use, to things that are in their own nature disagreeable, and pernicious, that it cannot bear to be delivered from them without reluctance and regret.

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Grave people hate Love for the name’s sake. Selfish people hate it for their own, and hypocrites for Heaven’s sake. To say a man is fallen in love, or that he is deeply in love, or up to the ears in love, and sometimes even overhead and ears in it, carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man.

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As the ancients agree that there are two different and distinct kinds of love, according to the different parts which are affected by it, the brain or the liver, when a man is in love, it behooves him a little to consider which of the two he is fallen into.

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What matters it how bad we are, if others can still love us, and we and still love other? There is nothing in life more beautiful than that trancelike quiet dawn which precedes the rising of love in the soul. It may be that the love which is stronger than death has a power sometimes to make itself heard and felt through the walls of out mortality, when it would plead for the defenseless ones it has left behind.

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He mistook his desire to be loved for an affectionate disposition. Why should you love an unseen and distant Being more than you do one who you can feel and see, who holds you in his arms, whose heart beats like your own? He who has learned the paramount value of love has taken one step from an Earthly to a spiritual existence.

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Cupid is the father of invention. Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be treated. Love will play freaks with men who are silly enough to believe that love is not incompatible with civilization. It is not a great thing in  a man to be turned out of his course by some undefined feeling which he has to a young woman.

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Love is as bad as drink when it knocks a man’s courage out of him, and makes him unfit for work, and leaves him to bemoan himself. Never mind love, What is it? The dream of a few weeks. That is all its joy. The disappointment of life is its Nemesis. Who was ever successful in true love? Success in love argues that love is false. True love is always despondent or tragical.

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Love Exists not without Faith

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Where a woman loves, she seldom doubts enough for her own safety. This love is d     ! In how many shapes does it make people shew themselves. I should be ungrateful not to love them for their love. None but the giddy love at first sight love everybody; but not their faults. Love will creep, where it cannot go. Love is a selfish deity. Of what absurd things does love make its votaries guilty!

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Love is very subtle thing, and, like water, will work its way into the banks that are set up to confine it, if it be not watched, and dammed out in time. Platonic love is, in general, a dangerous allowance. Is love such a stayed, deliberate passion, as to allow a young creature to take time to ponder and weigh all the merits of its cause?

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Love at first sight must indicate a mind prepared for impression, and a sudden gust of passion, and that of the least noble kind; since there could be no opportunity of knowing the merit of the object. Love on one side and discretion on the other is enough in conscience; and, in short, much better than love on both sides: for what room can there be for discretion, in the latter case?

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I have found that truly to accept another person and his or her feelings is by no means an easy thing, any more than is understanding. Can I really permit another person to feel hostile toward me? Can I accept his anger as a real and legitimate part of himself? Can I accept him when he views life and its problems in a way quite different from mine?

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Can I accept him when he feels very positively toward me, admiring me and wanting to model himself after me? All this is involved in acceptance and it does not come easy. I believe that it is an increasingly common pattern in our culture for each one person must feel and think and believe the same as I do.

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We find it very hard to permit our children or our parents or our spouses to feel differently than we do about particular issues or problems. We cannot permit our clients or our students to differ from us or to utilize their experience I their own individual ways. On a national scale, we cannot permit another nation to think or feel differently than we do.

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Yet it has come to seem to me that this separateness of individuals, the right of each individual to utilize his experience in his own way and to discover his own meanings in it—this is one of the most priceless potentialities of life. Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to  other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.

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Two paramount ingredients of love and affection are knowledge and acceptance—saying to the loved one, “I know you. I know you very well, and you are OK with me.” One or the other of these ingredients is very often missing in relationships that are called friendship or love. Perhaps I seem to accept you, but I do not know you very intimately—and therefore you might be afraid that when I do know you, I will not like or love you. Or perhaps, I do know you well, but always seem to be critical of your faults. In other words, I do not accept you.

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These two elements are probably the most important ingredients in any love relationship—and in any therapy relationship, regardless of whether it is a traditional psychoanalysis or a modern group therapy situation. The patient comes to feel deeply understood and deeply accepted by the therapist. This is of paramount importance, because generally the patient does not feel much love or acceptance for himself. That is one of the major problems.

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At this point, you might ask, “If those are the most central ingredients in therapy, why cannot a good friend, lover, or mate do just as good a job at helping someone in trouble?” That is a good question. Part is the answer is that such people can do a great deal to help. Is not real and unaffected tenderness for the infirmities of another, the very essence of love?

Peace is with those who Love.

Peace is with those who Love.

She argued poor love out of doors. She did not seem to allow the possibility of any persons being in love at all. A man’s lover is a fire of olive-wood. It leaps higher every moment. There are different species of love that go under the same name. There is a love that begins in the head, and goes down to the heart, and grows slowly; but it last till death, and asks less than  it gives. There is another love, that blots out wisdom, that is sweet with the sweetness of life and bitter with the bitterness of death, lasting for an hour; but it is worth having lived a whole life for that hour.

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There be loves many and gods many; and happy the man whose god and lover are one—happy for the time being; most miserable of mortals when the time of revelation comes and at one stoke both god and lover crumble into dust.

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Life is too wonderful to hate in. We are all too nearly bound for hating. The party that loves most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. Love, like despair, catches at straws. Everyone can tell a love letter that has ever received one. One knows them without opening—they are always folded hurriedly and sealed carefully, and the direction manifests a kind of tremulous agitation, that makes the state of the writer’s nerves. Love exists not without hope.

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Spray some Romance in the Air

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The bravest things a human being can do is to really love another human being. For it opens you wide to disappointment, to hurt, to failure, to tragedy. It is very hard to run such a risk. Most men and women are not brave enough to run it. Most of us insist on defending ourselves.

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And we do not take the risk of loving because we know the odds are not fair. To make a thing of shared joy takes two people, both of whom are willing to give themselves to that common construction or creation. Each knows that at any moment either one of them can ruin it. Each knows that neither one of them can make it beautiful, or good, or joyous alone, but alone either can make it bad, destructive, unhappy.

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Practice–your new friendships, hobbies, learning, and other pursuits will not become fun activities unless and until your practice them. Many people miss out on a great deal of enjoyment simply because they never get good enough at anything to relax and appreciate their own efforts.

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This is not that same as saying “anything worthwhile is work!” Again, your leisure is to be used for things of your own choosing and things that give you pleasure. However, sometimes initial hurdles must be got over before you get to the pleasurable part. Do not give up too soon!

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No Chapter on enjoyment of life can really call itself complete without some mention of love. Love is an instrument like any other thing, and we must play on it with considerate gentleness. Where love exists there is goodness. Does not love shun the World? Two that love must have their substance in isolation. The love of a young girl, with the morning’s mystery about her, there is no pure love, but strong love. Love, however, is a dangerous malady for the middle age.

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The love that survives has strangled craving, it lives to nourish and succor like the Heavens. The love that survives has strangled craving; it lives because it lives to nourish and succor like the Heavens. Nature and love are busy in conjunction. Loved played on love in the woman’s breast.

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Deep true love, proved by years, is the advocate. Thou that thinkest thyself adored: O Fool! It is not Thou she loveth, but the Difficulty. If immeasurable love were perfect wisdom, one human being might almost impersonate providence to another.

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Love is that blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the hearts. The Magnetic Age: the age of violent attractions: when to hear mention of love is dangerous, and to see it, a commination of the malady.

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When Nature has made us ripe for love it seldom occurs that the Fates are behindhand in furnishing a temple for the flames. So many admire you, what makes me special, why should I obey and wait for your love when young love has a thousand eyes?

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Love is still the cunning musician. Every love tale is an epic war of the upper and lower powers. Love of any human object is the soul’s ordeal. Love the charioteer is easily tripped, while honest jog-trot Love keeps his legs to the end.

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Love is love, and every will be, in spite of fathers and mothers. Love, with his accustomed cunning. Love is the death of self. A case of a man who had two loves—a woman and his country; and both true to him. Whoever loved that loved not as first sight?

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The wishes of two lovers make a will. Strength in love is the sole sincerity. At the age of forty, men that love love rootedly. If the love is plucked from them, the life goes with it. The Earth has grown weary of the Sun, and turns herself into the shadow, eager for the rest.

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The Sun has been too ardent a lover. However, the gazes of the Sun upon the receding Earth are fonder than his look when she raised herself to his bright face. Illusions are the mirror of love.

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There is a little god called Love, that will not be worshiped of any leaden brains; on that proclaims himself sole king and emperor of piercing eyes, and chief sovereign of soft hearts.

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Many become passionate lovers only to win praise to their wits. Will you cast out the devil whose name is Legion, when you cannot cast out the imp whose name is love? Love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence. You know how foolish those are that love; they are greater fools that do not.

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Where pity and admiration meet, love is not far behind. Love is not reason; love is not common sense. ‘Tis a passion. Love takes the deepest root in the steadiest minds. People take high delight in finding out folks in love. Who knows what opportunities a man in love may give against himself?

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If I am guilty of a fault in my Universal adorations of the sex, the women in general out to love me the better for it. Love was ever a traitor to its harborer. Love within, and I without, she will be more than woman or I less than man if I succeed not.

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Love is ingenious. Love is not naturally a doubter; fear is. An acknowledged love sanctifies every freedom; and one freedom begets another. Smooth love—that is to say, a passion without rubs, a passion without passion—is like a sleepy stream that is hardly seen to give motion to a straw.

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True love only wishes; nor has it any active will but that of adorable object. Love is but second to revenge. He can hardly bear your name; yet can think of nobody else. Love never goes backward.

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Nothing but the highest act of love can satisfy an indulged love. Those who most love are least set by. Are not lovers’ oaths a jest of hundreds of years’ standing? Love hides a multitude of faults, and diminishes those it cannot hide. Love is allowed to be an excuse for our most unreasonable follies.

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Love is always aspiring, always must aspire. Nothing but the highest act of love can satisfy an indulged love. Love satisfied is indifference begun.

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Love and compassion are hard to be separated: while anger converts what would be pity, without it, into resentment. How does this damned love unman me! Love is gentler than conscience. Many people have found useful the simply device of intentionally, definitely giving themselves permission to enjoy whatever they are doing.

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They may talk to themselves, write a message and stick it up on the bathroom mirror, or ask a friend to reinforce the idea. The method does not matter. What is important is to realize that you may feel unable to enjoy your activities, for any number of reasons, and to get across to yourself the message, “It is OK to relax!” Whatever device you use, it should be something that communicates directly to you—means something in your own head.

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The last few years have seen a tremendous response to the motto, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life!” Perhaps the unspoken second half is, “And tomorrow might be the last!” This is not to advocate a gloomy feeling that we might die at any moment. It is to proclaim that since every life ends sometimes, it is finite, precious, not to be wasted.

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Remembering that simple fact can be the best of all possible helps in learning to pick free-time activities that give you pleasure and to enjoy them to the fullest.

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I have put up three signs: DO NOT THINK, BE UN-REASON-ABLE, LET MISTAKES GO; THEY WERE NOT WORTH ANYTHING IN THE FIRST PLACE. Maiden, I am no monster, nor a sea animal, but a god; and neither Paris Hilton nor Ryan Phillippe ranks higher than I.

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Once I was a mortal, and followed the sea (society) for a living; but now I belong to wholly to it. I plunged for life or death. To interknit one’s sense with so dense a breathing stuff might seem a work of pain, so not enough can I admire how crystal-smooth it felt, and buoyant round my limbs.

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At first I dwelt whole days and days in sheer astonishment; forgetful utterly or self-intent, moving but with the might ebb and flow. Then like a new-fledged bird that first doth show his spreaded feathers to the morrow chill, I tried in fear the pinions of my will. “Taw freedom! And at once I visited the ceaseless wonders of this ocean-bed.

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As once with prayers in passion flowing, I embraced the stone, till from the frozen marble glowing, the light of feeling over me shone, so did I clasp with young devotion bright nature to a poet’s heart; till breath and warmth and vital motion seemed through the statue from to dart.

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And then, in all my ardor sharing, the silent from expression found; returned my kiss of youthful daring, and understoond my heart’s quick sound. Then lived for me the bright creation, the silver rill with song was rife; the trees, the roses shared sensation, an echo of my boundless life.

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Love unmans and softens. Love will draw an elephant through a keyhole. I should be ungrateful not to love them for their love. None but the giddy love at first sight.

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Love’s Labour’s Lost

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One of the best ways to turn on to living is to develop meaningful friendships. Friendships are sought by each of us because we are gregarious, or social, beings. We have the need to be accepted by, to associate with, and to pursue life with other people. We have a need to share our identities and humanness with others in the human population.

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Any man can make a women of feeling love him if he loves her enough and she has to antipathy to him. When a man loves, he has no past. There are no experiences alive in his memory to help to philosophy. One cannot love hopelessly and look one’s best. Nature demands some tribute in spite of the strongest will.

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Love unblended with any kind of ambition is unnatural, and the latter is frequently the father of the former. Chance is as unpropitious as favorable to lovers. The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.

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If it be true that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman’s love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

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Where the heart is really attached, one can be little pleases with the attention of anybody else. Everything is insipid, uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object. To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better shew more affection then she feels. Next to being married, a girl like to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and it gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.

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That expression of “violently in love” is as often applied to feelings which arise from an half-hour’s acquaintance, as to real, strong attachment. Is not general incivility the very essence of love? You are too sensible to fall in love merely because you are warned against it.

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A knight may never be of prowess but if he be a lover. There was never worshipful man or worshipful woman, but they loved one better than another. Boldness is ever a friend to love. Cupid sometimes blinds some people for their good.

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It is a hard thing to have loved; it is a hard thing to have not loved. However, harder than all else is to lose (or fail to gain) one’s lover. I have loved ships, as I have loved men. Love, in the eyes of its objects, ever seeks to invest itself with some rare superiority.

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Love is a fervent fire. Love has more to do with posterities than with the past. Moan or woman who has never loved, nor once looked deep down into their own lover’s eyes, they know not the sweetest and loftiest religion of this Earth. Love is both Creator’s sand and Saviour’s gospel to mankind.

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The extremist top of love is Fear and Wonder. The audacious immortalities of divinest love. A glorious, softly glorious, and most gracious evening, which seemed plainly a tongue to all humanity, saying: I got down in beauty to rise in joy; Love reigns throughout all Worlds that sunsets visits; it is a foolish ghost-story; there is no such thing as misery. Would the god of Sunlight decree gloom? It is a flawless, speckles, fleckless, beautiful World throughout; joy now, and joy forever!

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Whatever some lovers many sometime say, love does not always abhor a secret, as nature is said to abhor a vacuum. Love is built upon secrets, as lovely Venice upon invisible and incorruptible piles in the sea. Love’s secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which our further shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations; whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.

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Letters of a lover in an extremity of love, crying for help, are as curious to cool strong men as the contortions of the proved heterodox tied to a stake must have been to their chastening clerical judges. Old love reviving may be love of a phantom after all. We can, if we must revive, to keep it to the limits of a ghostly love.

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Many not one love, craving to be beloved? Such a love does not sap our pride, but supports it; increases rather than diminishes our noble self-esteem. To attain such a love the martyrs writhed up to the crown of saints. The people verily thirst to love and reverence. Their love is the only love worth having, because it is disinterested love, and endures, and takes heart in adversity. So with a Church. It lives if it is at home with the poor.

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To love is to be on the sea, out of sight of land. Her instinct of love sounded her lover through, and felt the deficiency or the contrariety in hi, as surely as musical ears are pained by a discord that they require no touchstone to detect.

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When we are alone, or selfish, we cannot afford to fail, there is no one to pick us up. However, when we are  loved, we can afford to fail. Someone loves us, puts us back together again, and we are on our feet again because we love in return.

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Even in the most civilized and technicized societies, play remains essential for the acquisition of knowledge, especially for self-discover by the child and the adolescent. The drive to explore and to play probably contributes also to the continued growth of the adult.

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Dare, when you are in doubt about whether to try something that looks enjoyable, take a calculated risk, we advocate no blind leap into drugs, promiscuity, or sky-diving, but do not let simple risks hold you back. To enjoy living means to take chances, that are rewarding. For some of us timid souls, enjoyment can take a lot of determination and energy. It may seem easier and safer to simply stay home, but the potential rewards are certainly not as great!

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Prescriptions for Enjoyment

 

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.

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The Marble Rose: The Creation of Aaliyah

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There was once a woman who lived in a charming Victorian, with terraces fronting the most beautiful garden in the World.

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The garden embellished seasonal flowers with a variety of bright colors and sweet fragrances.

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Diane was very happy tending her garden, as the winds whispered through the aspens, she felt like she was in a fairytale, but over time she became sad because in her leisure, the Diane would sit in her garden, and watch the flowers and the towering pine and palm trees grow.

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Diane had no children who could share her garden with her. So the charismatic lady decided to visit an antiquated doctor in her village and ask for help.

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When the Diane explained that she wanted a child, the antiquated witch thought for a moment. Then she pulled a tiny bag out of a fold in her cloak. “Plant these wildflower seeds and tend to them carefully every day. Soon you will have your wish,” said the antiquated doctor.

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Diane took the seeds home with her. The very next day, she was very excited, and planted the sacred seeds in a sunny corner of her English garden. Each and every day, Diane watched over the seeds, like a mother bird, and watered them as needed.

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To her surprise, soon tiny green sprouts began to spring out of the Earth. Before long, the sprouts grew and blossomed into a beautiful bed of eye catching roses, which hid a few secrets in their lush blooms.

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Their fragrance was mysterious, evocative, romantic, and surprising. No two rose lovers experienced their scent in quite the same way because of their genetic composition. Luckily, learning the scents of the roses did not detract from their allure in any way; it only made them more special.

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The rose perfume was most intense early in the morning, and the petals of the roses were so vibrant and lustrous that they looked like rare and precious gemstones.

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Roses are traditionally a symbol of love and romance and the smell of them is relaxing and restorative because the fragrance encourages us to breathe deeply and slowly. In the center of the roses grew a single, beautiful rose.

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Its deep pink and white petals were closed up tightly. The rose was so lovely that Diane could not resist bending down to smell it.

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As she knelt in front of the rose, its petals suddenly opened. Diane was amazed to find a tiny girl sitting inside the open rose. The little girl wore rose petals for a dress and had beautiful, gleaming hair.

“You are the most beautiful child I have ever seen! And you are as tiny as doll. Would you like to stay with me in my garden?” asked Diane.

“Oh, yes!” replied the petite girl. “I will call you Aaliyah,” Said Diane. Diane built Barbie a Dreamhouse, and it had three great stories for play!

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There was a gourmet kitchen on the first floor where Aaliyah could an amazing meal. The kitchen had granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, blender, and light up oven. There was even a mahogany dining room table, with matching hardwood floors.

On the second floor of Aaliyah’s dream house was a spacious bathroom that featured all sorts of realistic touches, from a light up mirror, flushing toilet made of solid gold, and a show which would sing when the water was turned on.

When you head to the bedroom, for a place to rest, Aaliyah had a divine canopy bed, perfect for sleep, and there was even a puppy bed so Aaliyah’s pet could sleep comfortably cuddled as well.

To get to the third floor, you had to take an elevator, up in there was the living room, which has a flat screen TV that flips channels, and a great balcony that provides the perfect place to soak up the Sacramento Sun.

And of course Diane built Aaliyah an ultimate closet to get ready for a night out. Aaliyah could pick out the perfect outfit and send it down to the bathroom in her second fashion elevator.

It was every girl’s and some boy’s Dreamhouse. Barbie lived happily in the Dreamhouse for the rest of her life. Sometime you could hear Aaliyah singing as she cooked her meals and got dressed.

One day, Ryan was walking by the garden, by this time Aaliyah was a grown woman. He heard Aaliyah’s beautiful voice and came near the Dreamhouse, as Aaliyah grew, so did the house, as it was magical.

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When he peered in the window, Ryan said, “I have never seen such a beautiful doll! I must meet her and ask her to be my wife.”

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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few. To live and to lobe well is incident to few, but indifferent to all. To love without reason is an argument of lust, to live without love, a token of folly. The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

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There is nothing in love more requisite or more delectable than pleasant and wise conference; neither can there arise any storm in live which by wit is not turned to a calm, and we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. If you can, everything is possible for one who believes.

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The Fair Moralist

Love dies, and it is just as well to strangle it in its birth; it can only die once. Many erroneous things have been written and said by the sages, but never did they float a greater fallacy than that love serves as a spur to win the loved one by patient toil. Miss Hepzibah never had a lover, poor thing, how could she? Nor ever knew, by her own experience, what love technically means. People of high intellectual endowments do not require similar ones in those they love. They are just the persons to appreciate the wholesome gush of natural feeling, the honest affection, the simple joy, the fullness of contentment with what they love. When women have other objects in life, they are not apt to fall in love. We draw one breath; we live one life. What a sweet reverence is that, when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal, and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart!

It is to the credit of human nature, that, expect where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by gradual and quiet process will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another, each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his subject.

There is nothing so good as a voyage to England to cure a love fit. There is no circumstance of life which a man so much feels the advantage of having two strings to his bow as in a love affair. The study of love is very much like meteorology. We know that just about so much rain will fall in a season; but on what particular day it will shower is more than we can tell. We know that just about so much love will be made every year in a given population; but who will rain his young affections upon the heart of whom is not known except to the astrologers and fortune tellers. And why rain falls as it does and why love is made just as it is are equally puzzling questions.

Many a woman rejects a man because he is in love with her, and accepts another because he is not. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, of fear. Love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover’s heart. When a man is in love, there is nothing else of him.I do not see why, when it comes to falling in love, a man should not fall in love with a rich girl, as easily as a poor one. The whole business of love, and lovemaking and marrying, is painted by the novelists in a monstrous disproportion to the other relations of life. Why should not people in love behave sensibly?

The loved object is always complicated. One does not want a lover one pities. It is a mistaken notion to suppose that a third person is always an encumbrance to lovers. Formed by nature for love, the human heart sympathizes instinctively in the misfortunes too often occasioned by it. Cease to be astonished, and only learn to love, an important lesson, and one not too well learned. However, I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds will somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. However, I do not think I am in the least inferior to those super-apostles. I may not be trained speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way. Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge?

Motives and Perception—May I have your….Attention!

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Love frequently dies of time alone-much more frequently of displacement. Mindfulness: Waking up to your life moment to moment and paying attention, on purpose, non-judgmentally. You are surrounded by sights, sounds, fragrances, tastes, and touch sensations. Which are you aware of first? 542 The first stage of perception is attention, the selection of incoming messages. There is little doubt about the importance of attention. Real love is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust, and belief against yourself and against the whole World, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter. Love must suffer in the stern World. My love was founded on a rock, and it endures. 002 Shrewdness in love usually goes with meanness in general. There are three states of mind: Emotional mind, wise mind, and reasonable mind. Love in all things a most wonderful teacher. The recollection of what I had been to her awakened feelings of forbearance and meekness under suffering in her bosom, to which all God’s creatures, but women, are strangers. 538 The most interesting and pardonable of human weakness—love. If selfishness a necessary ingredient in the composition of that passion called love, or does it deserve all the fine things which poets, in the exercise of their undoubted vocation, have said of it? Love is a stronger passion than vanity. 110 A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. What can you do with your mind that is mindful? For one, you can choose to look and look with an open mind. Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. Baby is much tighter than a century safe. 420 I always loved that boy as if he had been my-my-my own grandfather. I was not to be dissuaded from the poetical idea that had occurred to me, so I signed the letter, “You love-sick Pickwick.” We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. 048 New love is the brightest, and long love is the greatest  but revived love is the tenderest thing known on Earth. Describe—putting our experience into words; label a thought a thought and a feeling a feeling. Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human population. 468 Men are often blind to the passions of women but every woman is as quick-sighted as a hawk on these occasions, nor is there one article in the whole science of love which is not understood by all women; she might have said to be imagining herself in love, when she was not. Women frequently do this. It flows from the fact that in each exists a bias toward affection, a craving for the pleasure of being loved. 298 The longing to be shielded, bettered, sympathized with, is one of the attributes of the sex. This, coupled with sentiment and a natural tendency to emotion, often makes refusing difficult. It persuades them that they are in love. A man does not always love most what he admires. 114 Love, an extremely exacting usurer, we do not need to know a man well in order to love him. That is only necessary when we want to leave off. Participate—quieting the mind enough to be open to the now and be totally present to what is from moment to moment. Let go of the past. God created love, and just like the United States is the most powerful nation in the World because we have the most weapons, we are less likely to be attacked for this reason. 418 The CIA has weapons that you would not believe. The reason I bring this up is if love is made by God, and you focus on what you love, and who you love, that means your war chest is full of God (love), so you are less likely to be attacked by your enemies. If you are full of love, it is contagious and they do not want to catch it. Your enemy gains power from hate and anger, which is also contagious. Love is not a passion that degrades, but exalts our nature. 444 It is a deep mystery—the way the heart of man turns to one woman out of all the rest he is seen in the World, and makes it easier for him to work seven year for her, like Jacob did for Rachel, sooner than have any other women for the asking. We cannot love just where other folks would have us. There is nobody, but God can control the heart of man. 310 Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurance that it all the whole disbelieves. 059 However, the vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her own beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return. You once told me I would not know it enough. Well, let me tell you something, yeah, I do. You once told me, I would not feel it enough. Well, let me tell you that, baby, I do. 520 Sometimes I find myself in a sea in a dream that is so far away. Sometimes tell me what has happened to me. Sometimes I see myself falling, although I do not show it much. Sometimes I am crazy for you. Well maybe I am fine and tell me you are mine. 199 Offenses are easily pardoned where there is love at the bottom. How can you be mindful? It is no secret, Bristlecone pines, Mount Washington, in Great Basin, Nevada are the longest-living trees on Earth—some survive as long as 5,000 years. 062 However, the trees are hard to find because of the lack of developed trails, which makes them difficult to access. Therefore, if I loved, I should love at once and without change, so I can find the trails to your heart and our love will last more than 5,000 years, and others will not be able to access or take those feelings away from us. 294 The simple, primitive love which knits us to the beings who have been nearest to us, in their times of helplessness or of anguish aims at its own completeness because perfect love is every virtue considered as a well-fleshed indifference to sorrow outside it, young lovemaking—that gossamer web!

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Tell me, baby, can you hold me now? You do not have to say it, I feel it, too. And maybe I am falling or maybe, but I do not show it much. Tell me baby, can you see me now? Show me baby that I do not know how. 557 There is no greater vulgar error than that it is impossible for a man who loves one woman to ever lover another. On the contrary, it is certain that a man who can love one woman so well, at a distance will love another better that is nearer to him. Pain is going to happen in any relationship, but we have to accept what is good and difficult. Make up your mind that I am the one you want and make it known you are not going to let this love go. Suffering, things have happened in the past. 245 You have been cheated on a bunch of times, and even have presents from God you did not expect. You are a different person now and you nor I can focus on what we should have done. We cannot grasp the past, it is gone. We cannot avert the future, it is here, as every moment passes. 183 I can be in denial about loving you and you can push me away, but the need of being loved will always subdue us. Pain is inevitable in life, but suffering is optional! But sometimes I find myself in a sea, in a dream that is so far away. Sometimes, tell me what has happened to me. 051 Love often entails imbecility on the noblest of mankind. One mindfully—is doing one thing at a time. Slow your life down. In all ages it hath been a favorite text that a potent love hath the nature of an isolated fatality, whereto the mind’s opinions and wonted resolves are altogether alien. 113 Yet all love is not such, even though potent; nay, this passion hath as large scope as any for allying itself with every operation of the soul: so that it shall acknowledge an effect from the imagines light of unproven firmaments, and have its scale set to the grander orbits of what hath been and shall be. 248 Even a man who has practiced in lovemaking till his own glibness has rendered him skeptical, may at last be overtaken by the lower’s owe. Please forgive me if I repeat myself—love has no wings. All persons are doomed to be in love once in their life. 162 What silly nonsense love is! What do not people write about the really important things of life? Effectively—focusing on what works: Asking yourself, “What is going to work best in the situation?” This is the only century in which love has obtained even a partial divorce from Worldly and parental influences. 125 The profession of love must be highly esteemed where fallacious coin can pass for sterling worth. Make a commitment to play by the rules and get away from fairness and unfairness, right and wrong, vengeance and anger. 494 I have seen a woman wash her love from her remembrance in less times than she could get a spot of ink out of her ruffle. Do you erase me from your memory, did you every really love me at all? Love may be likened to a disease in this, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another. 321 Certain philosophers, among many other wonderful discoveries, pretend to have found out that there is so such passion as love in the human heart. Esteem and gratitude are the proper motives to love, as youth and beauty are to desire. Living well is the best revenge. I do not want to live with hate and anger. Love of the spirit and knows not death. Look beyond your World, try to find a place for me. If you ever feel the need to wonder why, let me know. 460