Emotions and Feelings

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.

Though 1 know he loves me, / Tonight my heart is sad; / His kiss was not so wonderful / As all the dreams I had.

I hold it true, what’re befall feel it, when I sorrow most ‘is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded.

Da mi basia mille.

 

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

Love’s pleasure lasts but a moment;

 

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Nota nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down onor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

 

What a woman says to an eager lover, / write it on running water, write it on air.

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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