Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. BaldwinRead
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.
In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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