CLEAR ALL
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
1
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
2
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
3
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
We read to know we are not alone.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.