Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
I hate work. That's why I got married.
I hate work. That's why I got married.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
