6. Even the toughest of men have a soft spot somewhere on the inside.
Take, for example, the words of Charles Bukowski, who wrote extensively about booze and whore-mongering, and then one day wrote this:
“There’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
Then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die.
And we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?” —Charles Bukowski, “The Bluebird.”
7. Love requires courage.
8. Love is worth the pain.
“But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing floor, into the season-less world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.” —Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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