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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Happiness is love, nothing else.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Who said nights were for sleep?
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.
I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
Love is touching souls.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
Each time you happen to me all over again.
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself
Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.
With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.
I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.
Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Is not absence death to those who love?
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
The more I wonder, the more I love.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.
Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
Your eyes make me shy
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy?
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
Love your self's self where it lives.
Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world.
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.
There is no one against us in this world but ourselves. You are against you. A failure to love, embrace, and accept yourself based on not a thing flows outwards and causes conflict. Love you for being alive, accept and embrace all of you, and where is the hate now? How can you hate another now? Where can conflict arise?
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
Love is better than Fame.
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
We never love a person, but only qualities.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.
I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.
In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.
she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?
