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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on, 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on, Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.