Opportunity Is A Great Aphrodisiac. Especially For Opportunists.

Many lost me in attempting to possess me. Beware of what you want.

Eventually, for the silk to survive the silkworm had to die.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

For if a room that exists under the governance, authority, and intent of others seems smaller than it is, then a room that exists in secret can, regardless of its dimensions, seem as vast as one cares to imagine.

Amor Towles

True test for great friendships or love is - is my life better with you or without?

Personal growth demands that you contradict yourself. Unless you do that you remain a slave to what you currently know, think or feel. Don't look for mirrors in conversation with others that they reflect what you say. Don't look for Black holes to converse with who soak in everything you say but look for people who question the validity of your world view and have ability to think differently.

And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

If only we loved "talking to" people as much we love "talking about" them.