We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Franois de La Rochefoucauld.
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
“Fear is all in the mind”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”