We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
To live without loving is not really to live.
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.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
All works of love are works of peace.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Let the sun stop burning, _x000D_ _x000D_ Let them tell me love's not worth going through. _x000D_ _x000D_ If it all falls apart, _x000D_ _x000D_ I will know deep in my heart, _x000D_ _x000D_ The only dream that mattered had come true _x000D_ _x000D_ ...In this life I was loved by you.
True love's the gift which God has given_x000D_ _x000D_ To man alone beneath the heaven._x000D_ _x000D_ It is the secret sympathy,_x000D_ _x000D_ The silver link, the silken tie,_x000D_ _x000D_ Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,_x000D_ _x000D_ In body and in soul can bind.
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
You say to me-wards your affection's strong;_x000D_ _x000D_ Pray love me little, so you love me long.
To see her is to love her,_x000D_ _x000D_ And love but her forever;_x000D_ _x000D_ For nature made her what she is,_x000D_ _x000D_ And never made anither!
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures_x000D_ _x000D_ Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,_x000D_ _x000D_ One to show a woman when he loves her.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded._x000D_ _x000D_ Someone sober will worry about events going badly._x000D_ _x000D_ Let the lover be.
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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