Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
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