Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place.
PAULO COELHOAnyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place.
PAULO COELHODon’t worry. Just leave everything in the hands of God.
BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIASFor what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
JOHN CALVINWithout freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
BENJAMIN SPOCKAdaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out.
AKIVA GOLDSMANYou needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENEI write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal… We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.
BARBARA DEMINGLove is the pursuit of the whole.
PLATOWhat does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXAnyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.
SRILA PRABHUPADAThe very essence of romance is uncertainty.
OSCAR WILDELife has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
SYLVIA PLATHWhen a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
MADAME DE STAELProtectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
BETTY FRIEDANIt is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON