“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
― The Art of Happiness
― The Art of Happiness
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
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