If I Know What Love Is, It

But It's A Poor Fellow Who Can't Take His Pleasure Without Asking Other People's Permission.

Everything Is Necessary, Everything Needs Only My Agreement, My Assent, My Loving Understanding; Then All Is Well With Me And Nothing Can Harm Me.

What Isn't Part Of Ourselves Doesn't Disturb Us.

To Hold Our Tongues When Everyone Is Gossiping, To Smile Without Hostility At People And Institutions, To Compensate For The Shortage Of Love In The World With More Love In Small, Private Matters; To Be More Faithful In Our Work, To Show Greater Patience, To Forgo The Cheap Revenge Obtainable From Mockery And Criticism: All These Are Things We Can Do.

Lucid And Quiet His Voice Hovered Above The Listeners, Like A Light, Like A Starry Sky.