We Learn About Love By

People Learn Twenty-five Percent From Their Teacher, Twenty-five Percent From Listening To Themselves, Twenty-five Percent From Their Friends, And Twenty-five Percent From Time.

None Of Us Can Know What Tomorrow Will Hold, Because Each Day Has Its Good And Its Bad Moments.

Other People Think Exactly The Opposite: They Surrender Themselves Without A Second Thought, Hoping To Find In Passion The Solutions To All Their Problems. They Make The Other Person Responsible For Their Happiness And Blame Them For Their Possible Unhappiness. They Are Either Euphoric Because Something Marvelous Has Happened Or Depressed Because Something Unexpected Has Just Ruined Everything.

Playing The Part Of A Charitable Soul Was Only For Those Who Were Afraid Of Taking A Stand In Life. It Is Always Far Easier To Have Faith In Your Own Goodness Than To Confront Others And Fight For Your Rights. It Is Always Easier To Hear An Insult And Not Retaliate Than Have The Courage To Fight Back Against Someone Stronger Than Yourself; We Can Always Say We're Not Hurt By The Stones Others Throw At Us, And It's Only At Night - When We're Alone And Our Wife Or Our Husband Or Our School Friend Is Asleep - That We Can Silently Grieve Over Our Own Cowardice.

When We Have Great Treasures Before Us, We Can Never See Them.