"Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age."
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"The more space you allow and encourage within a relationship, the more the relationship willflourish."
"We love the things we love for what they are."
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"
"Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?"
"In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved."
"And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"
"Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams."
"To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light."
"In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation, the growing appreciation of love, has the effect of reducing our inclination towards hatred and increasing our respect for love. By this means even anger can be diminished."
"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility."
"And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love."
"Where there is love, there is God also."
"If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!"
"Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you"
"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
"The heart wants what it wants."
"He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt."
"Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody."