"For it falls out That what we..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.
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“My love admits no qualifying dross”
“To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirthWith twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;If lost, why then a grievous labour won;However, but a folly bought with wit,Or else a wit by folly vanquished.”
“I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.”
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More on Appreciation
“When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is.”
“We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.”
“Overpay good baby-sitters.”