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«Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...»
«Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: ecstasies, ecstasy, mere
«Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.»
«Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.»
«Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.»
«Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.»
«Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. . . .Passion and expression are beauty itself.»
«Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.»
«Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.»
«Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.»