Jaisanthini World

LOVE: No. I  yearn upward, touch you close, Then stand away. I kiss your cheek, Catch your soul's warmth, - I pluck the rose. Then the good minute goes. -Robert Browning: Two in the Campagna Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I  Am quite myself again. -A.E.Housman: A Shropshire Lad At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. -La Bryere To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anaesthesis - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. -H.L.Menken Love is nothing save an insatiate thirst to enjoy a greedily desired object.  -Montaigne

LONELINESS: People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. -Anton Checkov I was lonesomer than Crusoe's goat. O.Henry Loneliness...is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. -Thomas Wolfe

LIFE: It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die. -St. Bernard Life's a long headache in a noisy street. -John Masefield Life is just one damn thing after another. -attributed to Frank Ward O' Malley There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -Santaayana Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. -Shakespeare: King John Don't try to live forever. You will not succeed -G.B.Shaw. Nothing that lasts too long is very agreeable, not even life. -Vauvenargues

LEISURE: The goal of war is peace; of business, leisure. -Aristole The advantage of leisure is mainly that we may have the power of choosing our own work, but not certainly that it confers any privilege of idleness. -John Lubbock

LAZINESS: Easy street is a blind alley. -Wilson Mizner Lazy people are always wanting to do something. -Vauvenargues

KNOWLEDGE: Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon All that we know is, nothing can be known. -Byron The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn. -Bernard De Voto All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. -T.S.Eliot Knowledge is the antidote to fear. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

KINDNESS: Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. -Henry Burton Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. -Cervantes I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that  I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. -Etienne De Grellet To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. -Samuel Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson Not always action show the man: we fine Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. -Alexander Pope: Moral Essays Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. -Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. -Oscar Wilde The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey