For universal love is as special an aspect as carnal love or any of the other kinds: all forms of mental and spiritual activity mu...st be practiced and encouraged equally if the whole affair is to prosper. There is no cutting corners where the life of the soul is concerned....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another appealing aspect to having grandparents is that they do help, to give [your child] a sense of continuity--of his place in ...the world and in the generations. Not only do grandparents help him intellectually to comprehend that there are parents of parents, but they also aid him in understanding where he fits in the succession of things. Even a very young child can begin to feel a sense of rootedness and history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself i...n some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that specieas alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidde...n. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Convey to your child] that you understand how hard it can be to lose a friend, that under the circumstances feeling sad, angry, h...urt or rejected is perfectly normal, that the friendship had some good things and some bad things to it and that neither aspect should be overlooked. . . . Children should be helped to realize that in time they'll find other friends--but they mustn't expect a new friend to "replace" a former one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface and perc...eives it so exclusively that the devil of hatred, despite all his terror-inspiring cruelty, never is entirely free of ridicule and of a somewhat dilettantish aspect. One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Violence among young people ... is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they... do the opposite and destroy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what ...they have been led to expect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If someone were to prove to me--right this minute--that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect o...f my behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;... And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »