Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

Believers are each other's mirrors.

May love always be with you, and you always surrounded by love

Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden - as you have seen.

Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

Let us choose one another as companions!Let us sit at each other's feet!Inwardly we have many harmonies - think notThat we are only what we see.

There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.

When skies above were not yet namedNor earth below pronounced by nameThere was water...

I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

The heart is an organ of fire and you can't stop it from feeling or connecting.

Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

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