Leonard Cohen on blessing
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.”
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You go your way I’ll go your way too.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are ugly but we have the music.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Do not be a magician – be magic!
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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More on blessing
You can’t be good to others without God being good back to you. There are blessings connected to helping others.
Joel OsteenJoel Osteen Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert CamusAlbert Camus No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
SocratesSocrates He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson I know I’m blessed because yo’ stress is realer than anything I done been through.
J. ColeJ. Cole Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SocratesSocrates
