We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
OvidRead
If you want to be loved, be loveable.
Interpretation
To attract love, one must embody qualities that are lovable.
This quote suggests that love is reciprocal; if one wishes to receive love, they should cultivate traits that make them lovable to others. By being kind, compassionate, and understanding, individuals can create an environment where love flourishes.
In practice
This quote can be used in a relationship counseling session to emphasize the importance of being lovable.
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Fas est ab hoste doceri._x000D_ One should learn even from one's enemies.
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
The end doesn't justify the means.
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.
I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
Life with you was lovelyβand when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink βvβ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering βl.β Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.
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