"Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself."
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"Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved."
"The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation."
"Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."
"O Beloved, where is the Beloved?"
"Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head."
"My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be."
"Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here."
"Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours."
"Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved."
"And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved."
"Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek."
"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
"Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work."
"Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me."
"If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession."
"You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection."
"O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one."
"Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed."
"The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being."