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It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the kind of pre-verbal intimacy that should flow with thunderous force between the bodies of people so bonded. We should have been able to bypass a mere inability to exchange language. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#love #love

When you see that a person's defects and bad qualities are so obvious, try to feel immediately that his defects and bad qualities do not represent him totally. His real self is infinitely better than what you see now. On the other hand, if you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it stands now and not expect it to come to a specific standard. If humanity has to become perfect before it can be accepted by you, then it would not need your love affection and concern. Right now, in its imperfect state of consciousness, humanity needs your help. Give humanity unreservedly even the most insignificant and limited help that you have at your disposal. This is the golden opportunity. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#love

I don't think anything," she said, "but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.... ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#dolly #love

Your lips are so soft and girly. I really must know what you use on them. ↗

— Leia Shaw

#for-the-love-of-harmony #leia-shaw #love

All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#love-hurts #love

Her brain might know this was a new day and a new time, but her heart had no idea. It sill loved. ↗

— K.L. Burrell

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Do not desire chiefly to be cherished and consoled by God; desire above all to love Him. Do not anxiously desire to have others find consolation in God, but rather help them to love God. Do not seek consolation in talking about God, but speak of Him in order that He may be glorified. If you truly love Him, nothing can console you but His glory. And if you seek His glory before everything else, then you will also be humble enough to receive consolation from His hand: accepting it chiefly because, in showing His mercy to us, He is glorified in our souls. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #love

In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded. Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#selfishness #suffering #love

آمنت بالحبّ ووثقت بمشاعرها ، لكن خيباتها المتكررة أفقدتها ثقتها بكل شيء ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#novel #love

God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love. ↗

— Shri Radhe Maa

#radhe-maa #radhey-guru-maa #radhey-maa #spiritual-quotes #love