Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
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Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
Music is love in search of a word.
I that have love and no more_x000D_ _x000D_ Give you but love of you, sweet;_x000D_ _x000D_ He that hath more, let him give;_x000D_ _x000D_ He that hath wings, let him soar;_x000D_ _x000D_ Mine is the heart at your feet_x000D_ _x000D_ Here, that must love you to live.
If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,_x000D_ _x000D_ How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.
I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.
I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen _x000D_ all you have to do is take your clothes off _x000D_ and all is wiped away revealing life tenderness _x000D_ that we are flesh and breathe and are near us_x000D_ as you are really as you are I become as I_x000D_ really am alive and knowing vaguely what is_x000D_ and what is important to me above the intrusions_x000D_ of incident and accidental relationships_x000D_ which have nothing to do with my life
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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