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The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#love #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #life

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#love #merit #morality #love

When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand. (Women in Love) ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#love

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ↗

— I John

#love

For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the Father; therefore, I say unto you, you shall receive grace for grace" (D&C 93:19–20). And then a few verses later the Lord says: And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; And whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the beginning. The Spirit of truth is of God. I am the Spirit of truth, and John bore record of me, saying: He received a fulness of truth, yea, even of all truth; And no man receiveth... ↗

— Henry B. Eyring

#love

My Goddess, if only you could feel for me now...as you did then.” To my surprise, he fell to his knees before me, clutching at my waist. “Danann...save me, my Goddess. Say that you love me. Promise to love to me, only me...always. ↗

— Joanne Valiukas

#seth #love

Remember my words, I may again return, I love you, I depart from materials, I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#love

Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. “I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?” He smiled. “And I love you too, darling.” -Lizzy and Will ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#lizzy #sherry-thomas #will #love

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

Hard to love thy enemies before dismantle their weaponry. ↗

— Toba Beta

#love-thy-enemies #weaponry #love