philosophy

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"Charity [10w] Contentment over your life is the best aphrodisiac for charity."

"Always be friendly, always be kind,Like the most beautiful flower that you can find."

"Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails."

"Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits."

"The Poet's Way Are we ever sure what we do,will endure and get its due?No.But we do it anyway.For that is the poet's way."

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival."

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

"He who knows how to use the power of love is the most powerful."

"A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof;but a truth is necessary when we positively are able to apprehend that the negation thereof includes an inevitable contradiction. It is not that that we can see how the opposite comes to be true, but it is that the opposite can not possibly be true."

"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa"

"Why I Don't Carry a Cellphone [10w] It's a sign of servility you can be contacted anytime."

"The Tragedy of Forgetfulness When you stop loving someone,in order to heal your memory of them begins to fade.Unfortunately, the good ones fade with the bad and suddenlyyears of your life have disappeared."

"You are a child of love that has come here to live in love and to give away love."

"To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'."

"Inspiration works well at boiling point."

"The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart."

"Let love bloom like a flower with the fragrance of the garden of your heart filled with beauty, joy, and happiness."