If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.
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If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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.
True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.
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