#tonic

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In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked...


Harold Brodkey


#gay #love #old #platonic-love #relationship

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.


Leo Tolstoy


#platonic #platonic-love #tragedy #love

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.


Thomas Hardy


#love

They see nothing indecent in sexual intercourse, whether heterosexual or homosexual, and indulge in it quite openly, in full view of everyone. The only exception was Socrates, who was always swearing that his relations with young men were purely Platonic, but nobody believed him for a moment, and Hyacinthus and Narcissus gave first-hand evidence to the contrary.


Lucian of Samosata


#satire #love

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.


Russell Brand


#plato #platonic #russell-brand #nature

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.


William Arthur Ward


#temporary #test #these #time #tonic

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.


Isabel Lucas


#assume #friendship #i #i think #instantly

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#exalt #god #into #man #philosophy

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.


Orison Swett Marden


#great #hope #incentive #like #medicine

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.


Orison Swett Marden


#deepening #feel #found #growing #life