Beloved quotes
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"I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted."
"Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside."
"And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows."
"I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent."
"That you may be beloved, be amiable."
"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison."
"I'm your Beloved, dammit! You're going to let me save your soul, and like it!"
"“You may have eternity. I have only now.” “But this is eternity.”"
"To bee beloved is above all bargaines."
"All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours."
"O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!"
"Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved."
"Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]"
"He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues."
"If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved."
