We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles. " You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work. . . because it is.
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
I don't read books much.