"Passionate love is a quenchless thirst."
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"Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame."
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"I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes."
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"Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved."
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"Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it."
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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
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"There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space."
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"God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips."
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"Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways."
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"And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes."
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"Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path."
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"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song."
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"Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist."
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"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
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"Only love and death will change all things."
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"He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life."
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"Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains."
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"The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place."
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"Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
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