If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
From Havelock Ellis
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
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