Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
Beloved quotes
Beloved
205 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, Poet
"...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Artist
"Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"Every soul becomes gold when touched by the Beloved."
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"Treat yourself as your own beloved child."
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"When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny. Alas, don't spoil this precious moment. Moments like this are very, very rare."
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"There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
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"Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you."
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"The only way to measure a lover is by the grandeur of the beloved."
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"Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name."
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"I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true."
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"One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again."
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"I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved."
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"The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique, who is your Beginning and your End."
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"From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are."
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"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
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"Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved."
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"To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness."
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"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
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"The death of a beloved is an amputation."
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"The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love."
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"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person."
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