My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.
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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!
Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.
The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love.
Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.
I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God
When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.
You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.
Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.
It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -_x000D_ _x000D_ Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.
I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.
I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover
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