Theodore Roethke
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
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There's no place like home.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
You're tearing me apart !
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Actions speak louder than words.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
If it is to be it is up to me.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
I'll be back.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Love that is true never grows old.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Ideas... they have the power
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
No involvement, no commitment.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.