To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
I still work that expectationdisappointment cycle all the time. I think it is part of the human nature and I think the most important thing is not to judge it. We are human and we do have expectations and a lot of our expectations are often not met. It is a process of learning how to be kind and compassionate and loving to ourselves when we don't get the things we want when people, circumstances, and opportunities don't match our expectations.
Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.
Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.
Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.