#eli

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#feelings #love #marriage #passion #death

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. ↗

— James Dickey

#complicity #deep #feeling #intimacy #sex

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#believes #does #feels #man #thinks

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#rare #tell #truth #truth is

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities. ↗

— Joan Didion

#minute #paper #possibilities #putting #start

With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made. ↗

— Damon Thueson

#god #good #religion #smart #religion

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#among #believe #conditions #good #had

Religion is all bunk. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#religion

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. ↗

— Idries Shah

#materialism #pleasure #pride #religion #sufi

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity. ↗

— Yann Martel

#religion