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“What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, whi...”
“TOMORROW’S WILLSilent world, I find myself,Glad no one hears my thoughts.In dark cocoon, I hibernate,Yet spirit spills every thought.A second chance to try again.The risks I know too well.Two sunse...”
“No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
“But in her loneliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and she discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s...”
“God didn’t make Adam and Eve because He was lonely or because He needed someone to love Him in return. God is complete in Himself”
“You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.”
“Another great example of the power of vulnerability -- this time in a corporation -- is the leadership approach taken by Lululemon's CEO, Christine Day. In a video interview with CNN Money, Day exp...”
“Mature love is like mature infinity: there is no such thing!”
“Don't let your plans or goals become more important than yourself, or the ones you care about! :)”
“One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which...”
“...he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them them over and over again...”
“Use the information you’ve been given as an individual, but NEVER let what you’ve heard or read or experienced in the past prevent you from answering the call on your life. You are responsible for ...”
“Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.”
“Women are conditioned to give themselves away.”
“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed is as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he has hurried ...”
“This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are de...”
“When my desiregrows too fierceI wear my bed clothesinside out,dark as the night’s rough husk.”
“She thinks of him lying there, the beautiful moment never arriving, never ruined, never disappointing, over. It must be sublime dwelling in that house of longing, forever poised on desire’s trembli...”
“The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.”
