The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.
It was just enough to sit there without words.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
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