Loss and Gain

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
_Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sincere Emotion

"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary." Mark Twain

No One Idolized

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized." _Albert Einstein

Courage

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

To be Loved for What One is

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
_Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I Establish

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
_James Joyce

A Successful Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
_Mignon McLaughlin

Dancing Star

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
_Friedrich Nietzsche

Openings in Heaven

"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."
_Eskimo Proverb

Democracy

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
_Oscar Wilde