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“Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.”

Un poco añejo, pero todavía vigente. Ranking de razones idiotas para no estar con quien te hace feliz:

• Silencio.

“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.”
“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

• Orgullo.

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.”
“No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride”
“Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.”

• Cobardía.

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
“You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do”
“Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.”

• Idiotez.

“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?”
“While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.”
“The fool is always beginning to live.”
“What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.”
“That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.”
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”

• Vergüenza.

“Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.”
“We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.”
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

• Miedo.

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
“The key to change... is to let go of fear.”
“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”

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