“Knowing who you are and taking this knowingness into a relationship with another requires two different levels of understanding. You can’t go into a relationship a half and expect the other...”
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“Knowing who you are and taking this knowingness into a relationship with another requires two different levels of understanding. You can’t go into a relationship a half and expect the other...”
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“At any point in time – it is the state of your attention that defines your level of existence as human beings. In your waking state – Flowing Attention trapped in thoughts make you a private...”
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“Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, “an infinite storm of beauty.” The beginning is swaddled in mists, blasted by...”
“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power...”
“When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with the lights in it.” It was for this tree I searched through the peach or...”
“The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The g...”
“What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to impress myself at all ti...”
“Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose continents rise in bas-relief above the oceans. But then: think of how it...”
“Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle aro...”
“I will love you with everything I am and all that I have…”
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“This is like coming home, like coming home after years away among Trojans and Lestrygonians, like coming home to a place where everyone is like you, where people know, they just know—coming...”
“Her smile was innocent and naive as if she didn’t know anything other than to love and be kind to others.”
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“love is friendship set in a blaze of fire. RJ Intindola – 1980”
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“In the epic battle between the brain and the heart, the heart usually wins. – 1985”
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“I can’t tell if the flame inside me is a sin or a virtue. Am I closer to holy for ignoring and abandoning the lustful desires of my body? Or am I stepping into the flames of the eternal fire...”
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“Drop by a drop of rain will bring a deluge, unless the dry summer sky is suppressing the clouds. But love… If given little by little, nobody can feed off its crumbs. Only a woman who loves t...”
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“Like the tigress watching her playing cub while napping, covered with sun rays that are blinding her. She opens her eyes wider at every sound, at every movement of the trees, air, soil… Prot...”
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“Everything loses it’s splendour and light when your lashes flop over the dark circles below your eyes. Asleep. Soft. With a scent of the date cookies you ate as a child.”
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“I must admit that I am always perplexed when reading quotes and other writings that true love should be unconditional. Well, how about betrayal? Shouldn’t that be a condition? It is for me a...”
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“The world stops existing in your arms, leaving me speechless… In love with love.”
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“The new story of ardour unfolding, the tale of tantrums of the hearts. An affair with a stranger who still can’t feel it, while silently roaming its streets.”
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“I’ll gift you with feelings you didn’t know where there, that’s the pleasure of crossing paths with a mystic.”
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“Love, is letting your loved one’s snoring become your love song.”
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“It was easy to be good and kind in times of plenty. The trying times were the moments that defined a man. And love? Love was something that did much to change a person. It brought joy as it...”
“Didn’t she know that knowing why doesn’t make things any less scary?”
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst e...”
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“As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of...”
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“Our past has a funny way of becoming part of who we are in the future, and I think that’s the way it’s meant to be. Without the scars, without the pain, we wouldn’t be able to appreciate the...”
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“I don’t like getting involved with other people’s business. I don’t have time for it. And yet here I am, listening to myself say four dooming words. “Leave everything to me.”
“The highest and best use of your time isn’t always something you like, but something you like can be the best use of your time. Choose wisely.”
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“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A mur...”
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“A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine months or nine minutes. It's the same. And it is in the past, you say? T...”
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“As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun. This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was.”
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“despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers”
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are foc...”
“Ήθελε να τον ρωτήσει αν θα άντεχε να την κοιτάει έτσι για το υπόλοιπο της ζωής τους ή αν θα κουραζόταν, όταν θα συνειδητοποιούσε ότι ήταν τελικά μια απλή γυναίκα και ότι τα μυστήρια που εντό...”
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“I’ll listen to your words as long as your actions don’t speak louder.”
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“Birth of a baby not only creates a bond between a baby and its parents but it also gives birth to a small world called “Family.”
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“I’ve stopped letting somebody else’s mood adjust my day. No matter how much I care for this person, I will create a distance that’s well deserved. My days belong to me.”
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“Never try to make excuses for people. Sometimes a person might be good, but not be good for you. Other times, a person’s not good because they’re just not good - all they bring you is hearta...”
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“If you had a strong chemistry with the person—Then it would be difficult to forget them into your life.”
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“Don’t let people who fuck with your mind enter into the door of your mind.”
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“You’re my princess, right? You were always going to be my princess, no matter what you were born, no matter who your dad married.”
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“SELFLESS LOVE. If you have a special person in your life, but you find yourselves arguing, irritated and/or fighting out of the blue… you both need to try to step back and be selfless and th...”
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“Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.”
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“Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It’s happened once, it could happe...”
“How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.”
“Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.”