He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
Andr Gide.
“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
“Those who have eyesdo not know their happiness.”
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”
“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”
“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”
“You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect ...”
“You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.”
“Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.”
“Love and a red rose can't be hid.”
“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”