The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.
I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on top of her head- she lets her eyes look at my eyes- then she drops her hair and lets it fall down in front of her face. we go to bed and I hold her speechlessly from the back my arm around her neck I touch her wrists and hands feel up to her elbows no further.
Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.