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"I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!"
"Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself. And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved. Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors. For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths out of sight, in the deep living heart."
"No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love."
"Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism."
"Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival."
"Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love."
"Love is wanting others to be happy."
"Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option."
"...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state."
"Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell."
"If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God."
"Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed."
"I love being alive. I like being a human being."
"All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing."
"Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes."
"The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness"
"Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart."
"A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness."
"Love is an act of faith, not an exchange"
"Love is the glue that keeps the stars in place."
