Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Topic: Age, Life, Love
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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
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I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Do not feel certain of anything.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.
They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.
