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"For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them."
"Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence."
"Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love."
"Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet."
"The life I love is making music with my friends."
"Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance."
"Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable."
"Love is reducing the universe to one being."
"I think your life is full of first loves because every time you love someone new, you love them in a different way."
"I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old."
"Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."
"In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire."
"Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all."
"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
"Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature"
"Love is an intensification of life."
"Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely."
"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand."
"For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The source of this idea is deep within your heart. As you calmly breathe in and out, picture it radiating from you like a fine, colored vapor gradually covering the face of the earth. See it enter the hearts of everyone, especially those stuck in the mad zones. Feel it circulate everywhere until it comes all the way round and back to you. This is love in action. The source of this love is the Tao. Savor this."
