It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Ring the bells that still can ring.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
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