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Some men are more perfect than others.
It takes great generosity to accept generosity.
It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.
There are some decisions in life that only you can make.
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.
Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.
Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.
The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.
Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.
There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.
Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.
you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.
The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.
The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.
One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.
Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.
Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.
There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.
The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.
The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.
Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.
We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.
Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.
The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.
It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.