quotes on confusion in love

Untold suffering seldom is. ~Franklin P. Jones



History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. ~Paul Valery, Regards sur le Monde Actuel



In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills



You can never worry your way to enlightenment. ~Terri Guillemets



Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~John Dryden



A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan. ~Author Unknown



Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. ~Remy de Gourmont



Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley



There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. ~Alfred Capus



As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. ~Stewart Dalzell As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~Woody Allen



Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. ~Florence Nightingale



You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. ~Jaesse Tyler



Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. ~Stephen Baker



Reading means borrowing. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms



Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Rejected Statement, Part I," The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911



A knuckleball is a curve ball that doesn't give a damn. ~Jimmy Cannon



The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt



Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ~Mae West



I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. ~Carl Jung