When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.
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When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.
Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.
Give into love or live in fear.
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'No. A good number of people love me, I believe, or at least they think they do; but I never seem to care much for any one. I do believe I love you, little Molly, whom I have only known for ten days, better than any one.
And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. - Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.
I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.
("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole heart" - we then wonder about the wholeness of a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our wives, our fathers, our gods - they are all beyond us.
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