Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life?
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
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.
One is never too old for romance.
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.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
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