In The Hand Of One Who Had Been Through Rough Seas.

(Yesterday, I was taken on a spin on a fast boat for several hours through choppy seas by one who understands the water. For one whose feet are always planted firmly on the land, I view the sea with a mixture of awe and admiration...)

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

- H.M. Tomlinson


We are always a little nervous of what we don't understand.

- Ghostwise

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

- African Proverb


Glad am I to be in a boat manned by one who had been through rough seas.

- Ghostwise

Man Wants To Be A Woman's First Love, Woman His Last.

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

- Oscar Wilde


There is no friendship between men and women IF there is passion, enmity, worship and love. Without them, friendship is always possible.

- Ghostwise

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.

- Oscar Wilde


In this case, I stand on the side of women and Oscar Wilde.

- Ghostwise

I Hate Love.

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

- Neil Gaiman


And yet like a moth to the naked flame...

- Ghostwise

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“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other”

- Ashleigh Brilliant


Can love be measured by the amount of hurt?

- Ghostwise