All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
- Topic: Grief, Love
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Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
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.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
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.
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.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
What barrier is there that love cannot break?