Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy..._x000D_ All you need is love.
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.
There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
Love simply is. [...] Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.
I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Where there is love there is life.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.
It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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