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I let my inner smile enliven my being and enhance my health. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

But these aren't just stories," she'd said. "They're whole kingdoms. They're worlds. They're perspectives and opinions you can't offer, from lives you haven't lived. They're more valuable than any gold coin, and more important than any state luncheon. I should hope you, as king, would know that! ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

The air was so damp that fish could have come in through doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms. One morning Ursula woke up feeling that she was reaching her end in a placid swoon and she had already asked them to take her to Father Antonio Isabel, when Santa Sofia de la Piedad discovered that her back was paved with leeches. She took them off one by one, crushing them with a firebrand before they bled her to death. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are heroes in evil as well as in good. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Leave the rest all to me. You know. O boo de la thing.'
'What?' said Archie, in his turn.

'You know. The thing they say about camels. At the end of the trau …'

'You mean the thing Mr Crawford says,' said Archie with ungenerous malice. 'Au bout de la trace on trouve toujours ou le chameau ou le propriétaire du chameau.'

'That's it!' said Philippa. 'That's it exactly. Only of course,' she said cheerfully, 'Mr Crawford says it in French. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Stars shine long after they've flamed out and the shine they shine with is love. ~ Matt De La Pena

I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on. ~ Oscar De La Hoya

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what we desired. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Even women are perfect at the outset. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops. ~ Oscar De La Renta

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Better to suffer than to die. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

People only need the right amount of bullshit for things to start exploding. Sad, but it's human nature. ~ Gabbo De La Parra

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Songs of the Soul

On a dark night,
Inflamed by love-longing -
O exquisite risk! -
Undetected I slipped away.
My house, at last, grown still.
Secure in the darkness,
I climbed the secret ladder in disguise -
O exquisite risk! -
Concealed by the darkness.
My house, at last, grown still.

That sweet night: a secret.
Nobody saw me;
I did not see a thing.
No other light, no other guide
Than the one burning in my heart.

This light led the way
More clearly than the risen sun
To where he was waiting for me

- The one I knew so intimately -
In a place where no one could find us.

O night, that guided me!
O night, sweeter than sunrise!
O night, that joined lover with Beloved!
Lover transformed in Beloved!
Upon my blossoming breast,
Which I cultivated just for him,
He drifted into sleep,
And while I caressed him,
A cedar breeze touched the air.

Wind blew down from the tower,
Parting the locks of his hair.
With his gentle hand
He wounded my neck
And all my senses were suspended.

I lost myself. Forgot myself.
I lay my face against the Beloved's face.
Everything fell away and I left myself behind,
Abandoning my cares
Among the lilies, forgotten. ~ Juan De La Cruz

There is no equality without coercion. ~ Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora

privation is the cause of appetite ~ Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.
Eating and crying.
Crying and eating. ~ Matt De La Pena

Nothing is given so profusely as advice. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

His career, my education, his freedom, my innocence ... all tied together in a nice little package of morality. ~ Gretchen De La O

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon