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Words to Do Write By
To the ancients, friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.
C.S. Lewis
"Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!"
St. Augustine, The Confessions
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guiding genius.
Joseph Adderson, English essayist
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future."
French mystic/diarist St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
"No matter how much we share with all mankind each of us is bitterly alone. Our true distance from our neighbour begins to yawn when we at length discover the unexplored darkness within ourselves, and begin to understand that he who travels farthest and fastest into the darkness must travel alone; and that the ultimate destination of every traveller is always himself."
John Keats
"Lovers are never equally matched. One always overshadows the other and stunts his or her growth so that the overshadowed one must always be tormented by a desire to escape, to be free to grown. Surely this is the only tragic thing about love."
Lawrence Durrell
"The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that joy is only to him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die."
Joyce Cary
"I trust you do not permit yourself to be depressed by the partiality of what is called ‘the public’ for the favourites of the moment."
Lord Byron in a letter to Samuel Coleridge
"Follow your bliss…so that the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."
Joseph Campbell
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did do."
Mark Twain
Literature is a belief for one who believes in nothing else.
Flaubert
"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville
"If a man has learned to think, no matter what he maybe thinking about, he is always thinking of his own death."
Tolstoy
