"The craving for equality can be expressed either by the wish to draw all others down to one’s level (by belittling, excluding, tripping them up) or by the wish to draw oneself up with everyone else (by appreciating, helping, taking pleasure in others’ success)."
— Human, All Too Human, Part I by Nietzsche (via thedailynietzsche)
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"One must learn to love. This is what happens to us in music. First one has to learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate it and delimit it as a separate life. Then it requires some exertion and good will to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness, to be patient with its appearance and expression, and kindhearted about its oddity. Finally there comes a moment when we are used to it, when we wait for it, when we sense that we should miss it if it were missing; and now it continues to compel and enchant us relentlessly until we have become its humble and enraptured lovers who desire nothing better from the world than it and only it."
— Nietzsche, The Gay Science (via cherryribbons)

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psych-facts: How To Make Your Love Last →

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By Marie Calica for Yahoo! Southeast Asia

Take them for who they are—warts and all. ”To make one’s love last is, from the onset, to accept the other person is a gift from God together with that person’s strengths and frailties, seeing that these are complimentary to one’s…

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