"TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others."

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Source : "A Dialogue". "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 170, 2006.

Gottfried Leibniz

#Life Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.”
“Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.”
“It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.”
“Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral stateâ€¦ something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?”
“It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.”
“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.”
“Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.”
“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”

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