LOVE NEVER FAILS

“Two things to remember in life: Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people.”

“Angry is just sad’s bodyguard.”

“At the centre of the human heart, is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.”

“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.”