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“If you waste time looking at the clouds,
you might miss the stars.
If you waste time looking at the storm,
you might miss the rainbow.
If you waste time looking at the rain,
you might miss the sunshine.
If you waste time looking at the seeds,
you might miss the harvest.
If you waste time looking at the river,
you might miss the ocean.
If you waste time looking at the thorns,
you might miss the roses.
If you waste time looking at the past,
you might miss the future.
If you waste time looking at the losses,
you might miss the victories.
If you waste time looking at the tragedies,
you might miss the miracles.”
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you might miss the stars.
If you waste time looking at the storm,
you might miss the rainbow.
If you waste time looking at the rain,
you might miss the sunshine.
If you waste time looking at the seeds,
you might miss the harvest.
If you waste time looking at the river,
you might miss the ocean.
If you waste time looking at the thorns,
you might miss the roses.
If you waste time looking at the past,
you might miss the future.
If you waste time looking at the losses,
you might miss the victories.
If you waste time looking at the tragedies,
you might miss the miracles.”
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“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
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“Living in the era of social media and dating apps, online dating is also a very popular dating method in England. It perfectly suits the English person’s superpower: being the invisible man or woman. They also like to keep their distance, and the internet is perfect for that. Also complimenting someone is easier online than offline; you don’t even have to say anything you just press a ‘like’ or a ‘wink’ button and that’s it; perfectly suitable for romantically retarded people.”
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“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.
If absence be not death, neither is theirs.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― Some Fruits of Solitude/ More Fruits of Solitude
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.
If absence be not death, neither is theirs.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― Some Fruits of Solitude/ More Fruits of Solitude
“How to identify love by knowing what it's not: love doesn't use a fist. Love never calls you fat or lazy or ugly. Love doesn’t laugh at you in front of friends. It is not in Love’s interest for your self-esteem to be low. Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road. Love does not make you beg. Love does not make you deposit your paycheck into its bank account. Love certainly never, never, never brings the children into it. Love does not ask or even want you to change. But if you change, Love is as excited about this change as you are, if not more so. And if you go back to the way you were before you changed, Love will go back with you. Love does not maintain a list of your flaws and weaknesses. Love believes you.”
― This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
― This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Maxine Ward’s 2025 Year in Books
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