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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Love is like a balloon.. when you push your relationship with someone forward it is like blowing up the balloon. If you blow too hard and too fast, the balloon pops and likewise the relationship breaks. But if you take things slowly and let the balloon of love stretch on its own, it grows into a huge, prosperous balloon, full of love. Also, if you don't push the relationship at all, or at least hold it at the same level it was at, the air will flow out of the balloon, deflating it, and your love will shrivel up and become flat & lifeless. So when you are in love, push the relationship forward slowly and gently and the balloon will grow comfortably into a strong, immense love.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job v.7.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. .

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.".

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..