love


Random quote of the day:

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

—C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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Random quote of the day:

“The color and the lines contain your character and your message. If all of life moves inevitably towards its end, we must, during ours, color it with all our colors of love and hope.

—Marc Chagall, speech at the dedication of the Musée National Biblique, 1973

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Random quote of the day:

“Hallelujah: only a songwriter believes
the best way into a lover’s heart is to tell you
all your secrets in public.”

—Shayla Lawson, “Songs for Women”

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Random quote of the day:

“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

—Edward Abbey, Down the River

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Random quote of the day:

“Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.”

—Reverend Bernice B. King, The Atlantic, March 1, 2018

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Random quote of the day:

“Is it possible for the rose to say, “I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?” Or is it possible for the lamp to say, “I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people”? Or can a tree say, “I’ll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad”? These are images of what love is about.

—Anthony de Mello, “How Happiness Happens,” Awareness: The perils and opportunities of reality

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Random quote of the day:

“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy, 1923

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Random quote of the day:

“Magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.”

—W. Somerset Maugham, The Magician: A Novel

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Random quote of the day:

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never a natural death. Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love.”

—Anaïs Nin, The Four-chambered Heart, Vol. 3

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Random quote of the day:

“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to little peanut it will give up its secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough. In a crowded auditorium of people I can pick out the spiritual souls almost at a glance.

―George Washington Carver, quoted in The Man Who Talks With Flowers by Glenn Clark

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