“El amor es una planta delicada que se cultiva con cortesía, palabras bondadosas, gestos de cariño y consideración, actitudes de reconocimiento y muestras concretas de
empatía y bondad.”
Source: 111 Sugerencias para novios y recién casados
“Si vas a unir tu vida con alguien, asegúrate que comparta tus intereses, o al menos los respete.”
Source: El Tesoro de Charleen
“Además tú también arriesgas tu vida y es algo que he aceptado. ¿Crees que no me duele el saber que puedo perderte? —alzó al vista—. Porque esa sí es una posibilidad. Morirás en combate y tengo miedo, pero eso es lo que eres. Yo no interfiero con lo que deseas, no interfieras tú en lo que yo quiero.”
“La seducción es el arte de enloquecer a una persona porque, quien está enamorado, idealiza, y no ve a quien ama como realmente es, sino que lo ve mejor". Martin Ross.”
Source: El Mapa de la Autoestima
“Ser sinceros no es lo mismo que dar nuestra opinión.”
Source: El arte de No amargarse el Matrimonio
“Cultural nationalist feelings were expresses consistently by Scottish Committee members, but although sometimes linked to political aspirations, the Committee's to secure its anbitions, if at all possible, within a British structure is striking. Separation was only contemplated under direct pressure. Hostility within CEMA's Council to Scottish nationalism was marked by a general failure to distinguish between its political and cultural aspects.”
Source: Scotland, CEMA and the Arts Council, 1919 - 1967: Background, Politics and Visual Art Policy
“If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.”
Source: The Writing Life
“There was... a very palpable fear that involving the Scottish Committee of the Arts Council could lead to a more nationalistic festival, like the Scottish Theatre Festival envisaged by Bridie in October 1946. Some members of the Arts Council's Scottish Committee were considered 'too nationalistic and difficult to work with' by the London office.”
Source: The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-War Britain
“Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees-breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you."
"And the other moral of the story is that you, Smartypants, just told an amazing story, proving that given enough time, and enough coaching, and enough hearing stories from current and former associates of Gutshot Textiles, anyone-anyone-can learn to tell a damned good story."
"Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Tis the Fate of All Gotham-Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.”
Source: Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections