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When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, it lay at hand, Not specially right or specially wrong, A plentiful and obvious thing Not at all hard to understand. Then, after twenty, it became At once more difficult to get And more desired -- though all the same More undesirable; for what You are alone has, to achieve The rank of fact, to be expressed In terms of others, or it's just A compensating make-believe. Much better stay in company! To love you must have someone else, Giving requires a legatee, Good neighbours need whole parishfuls Of folk to do it on -- in short, Our virtues are all social; if, Deprived of solitude, you chafe, It's clear you're not the virtuous sort. Viciously, then, I lock my door. The gas-fire breathes. The wind outside Ushers in evening rain. Once more Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am." (Best Company)


Philip Larkin


#solitude #virtues #love

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.


Steven J. Daniels


#fiction #mystery-novels #love

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.


E.M. Forster


#intimacy-self-sacrifice #therapy #transparency #love

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.


Victor Hugo


#kindness #love #priest #love

we used to play around with our implicitly, we are too enjoying a game of looking and interpreting our self, until there is one thing that may be forgotten: is happy incomplete, if we do not explicitly express it?


Aditia Rinaldi


#happiness #implicitly #incomplete #love #we

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.


Randy Alcorn


#compassion #future #hoarding #needs #present

He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me?


David Holdsworth


#jesus-the-christ #joyfulness #justice #kindness #love-story

She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.


Cecilia Dart-Thornton


#kindness #love #sacrifice #love

The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.


J. Courtney Sullivan


#cynical #love #mess #relationships #love

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody- to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.


John Steinbeck


#company #loneliness #man #men






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