The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.