Gerda Wegener Quotes

#1. Paraphrasing Spinoza, Alexandre adds, "In pity, sadness comes first. I am sad that the other is suffering, but I don't really love him. In compassion, love comes first."23 The

Matthieu Ricard

#2. All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#3. Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.

Murasaki Shikibu

#4. I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity.

Karl Jaspers

#5. Everything in life ... has to have balance.

Donna Karan

#6. If you don't go, you'll never know.

Robert De Niro

#7. Don't move, Anna Reiley. Right now, everything is perfect.

Sarah Ockler

#8. What thou lovest well remains,

Ezra Pound

#9. I'm gonna be so mad when my mood elevators wear off.

Karen Walker

#10. I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe ...

Kate Morton