#beloved

A woman's face, naked and unadorned, is as beautiful as the moon, and as mysterious. ↗

— Hector Eisenberg

#immortal-beloved #beauty

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#artists #began #beginnings #beloved #between

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#being #beloved #loving #more #pleasure

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image. ↗

— Pope Theodoros II

#beloved country #country #egypt #god #her

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #lover #love

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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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

#comes #discovers #life #lover #once

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

#bandage #beloved #comes #conceals #faults

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

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