Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Thursday, 16 June 2016
14:09:00
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Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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Franklin P. Jones...
14:08:00
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Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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Rumi...
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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and
whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon
and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be
only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which
draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers
the deep Heart in another, -- that we find we have (a common Nature) --
one life which runs through...
11:09:00
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy
themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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Zora Neale Hurston...
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