Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.