“The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure to be experienced by the sensitive lover.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
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“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
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Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 155
“It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.”

“A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.”
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Bright Side of the Road
Song lyrics, Into the Music (1979)

“The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love.”
Vol. I, p. 113 <!-- 90? intellectual cleverness that remains merely cynical and confined to the personal or partisan contrasted with wise compassionate awareness which transcends such bounds and abides with the eternal and universal qualities and vital resolutions beyond all mortal aims. -->
1980s, Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985)
Context: The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love. Without this intelligence there can be no compassion. Compassion is not the doing of charitable acts or social reform; it is free from sentiment, romanticism and emotional enthusiasm. It is as strong as death. It is like a great rock, immovable in the midst of confusion, misery and anxiety. Without this compassion no new culture or society can come into being. Compassion and intelligence walk together; they are not separate. Compassion acts through intelligence. It can never act through the intellect. Compassion is the essence of the wholeness of life.
“Failure is but the longer road to triumph.”
Source: Dreadfully Ever After

“Lovers forget that after marriage and kids, it's no longer a 'relationship”
It's a family.
page 16
The Other Wife (2003)