“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love”
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“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love”
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion”
“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable”
“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many. ”
“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us”
“The only true gift is a portion of yourself”
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever”
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark”
“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be”
“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel ”
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. ”
“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad”
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
“Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising it”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps”
“Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules”
“Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy”
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers”