"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

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"One day I suddenly saw that the sun is my heart, my heart outside of this body. If my body's heart ceases to function I cannot survive; but if the sun, my other heart, ceases to function, I will also …"

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

Literature1926–2022

#nature

"What is called the Law of Nations is not properly law, but a part of ethics: a set of moral rules, accepted as authoritative by civilized states. It is true that these rules neither are nor ought to b…"

— John Stuart Mill

Philosophy1806–1873

#Human Nature

"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."

— Deborah Reber

Literature

#love

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his pani…"

— Anaïs Nin

Literature1924–1940

#love