The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them to fit our own image.
Otherwise we love only that reflection of ourselves we see in them.
When we get creative we do not have to turn the event
into one long sober and overly serious agony.
A serious writer ought not to be mistaken for a solemn writer.
A serious writer may write in flight like a hawk
or hover in hunger and dive like an eagle or
even scribble with self-important pomposity like a popinjay.
A writer trying to create in pure solemnity is much like
a funeral director trying to look sad
at a $10000 celebration of life.
A heart resolved after due reflection
will not flinch at the critical moment.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one,
what you would probably think
if he should die during the dispute.
As we have all probably heard many times over,
if there is anything that we wish to change in a child,
we should first examine it and see
whether it is not something
that could better be changed in ourselves.
When I try to be sober I only look foolish
My Secret Thoughts 