Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

David Brooks
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  1. Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky. - Unknown

  2. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E.e. Cummings

  3. Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe. - John Lennon

  4. Love, that moves the sun and the other stars - Dante Alighieri

  5. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott

More Quotes By David Brooks
  1. There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

  2. Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

  3. Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

  4. Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

  5. Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

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