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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.

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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying

Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.

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