Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.
I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
Love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl.
The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.
One word _x000D_ _x000D_ Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:_x000D_ _x000D_ That word is love.
I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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