Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
- Topic: Adversity, Happiness
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
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