We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques MaritainRead
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We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.
If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.
I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
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