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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth-that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which a man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of human is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for the brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way-an honorable way-in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words,"The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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The life you never live is greater than the wealth you never know ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood-' You know this poem, right? 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth-" "I loved that poem. But I remember thinking to myself: Why? How come you can't travel both? That seemed really unfair to me. ↗

— Dan Chaon

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It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text. ↗

— Jack O'Connell

#love

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#absolutism #catholicism #christianity #god #jesus-shock

Love is the centre of all the Emotions or feelings. ↗

— Nikhil Yadav

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Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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Tapi Tuhan juga seperti punya jatah waktu yang boleh kita habiskan berdua. Sia-sia bertahan, sia-sia melawan. ↗

— Avianti Armand

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Quello che conta nella Terra promessa non è la terra, è la promessa. ↗

— Jean-Michel Guenassia

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[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you. ↗

— John Chrysostom

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