I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.
She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.
Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist. . . such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium. "
The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.
The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest. ' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend. . . And the best men cook for you.
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.
I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: "talk to me, tell me what's on your mind. " Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.