#beloved

Everyone likes to be loved; no one is prepared to love. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. ↗

— Voltaire

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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. ↗

— Mary Astell

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The yogi can relate to his Beloved in the form of a personal relationship-as a friend, a child, a spouse. He can cherish God in traditional religious performances–honoring saints, holy sites, and scriptures. He can hold God dear in the form of union—as his own Self, or in samadhi. All forms of God are equally suitable for love. (165) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#devotion #god #love #relationship #spiritual-relationship

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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