“Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.”
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
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“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don’t need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding of love and they need our respect.
Come Be My Light
Source: Knoansw, A Simple Path Quotes – The Inspiring Book Of Mother Teresa, September 03, 2020 https://knoansw.com/a-simple-path-quotes-mother-teresa/
“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”
Said at Keswick, as quoted in The Education Outlook (1926) Vol. 78
Il y a deux amours: celui qui commande et celui qui obéit; ils sont distincts et donnent naissance à deux passions, et l’une n’est pas l’autre.
Part I, ch. XXI.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 217
Google this: Jean Vanier and what it means to be human http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/google-this-jean-vanier-a_b_7484702.html Huffington Post, 02/06/2015
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