Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Interpretation
A broken heart can lead to a deeper understanding and connection with divine love.
In this quote, Oscar Wilde suggests that experiencing pain and heartbreak can open one up to profound spiritual insights and connections. The metaphor of a broken heart implies that through suffering and vulnerability, people may find a way to invite something greater, such as faith, love, or divine presence, into their lives.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a discussion on the healing power of love and spirituality.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.
O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in silence, to wait for Heaven in peace. Keeping myself open to the rays of the Divine Host, In this furnace of love, I shall be consumed, And like a seraphim, Lord, I shall love You.
We think love is noble, and in some ways, it is. But in some ways, it isn't. Love is just love. And sometimes people do terrible things because of it.
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