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.
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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