“If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.”
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Context: If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.
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Source: Audition (1997), Chapter Eight
Context: My theory is that sushi and kaiseki are dishes that evolved in peaceful, prosperous times, when eating well was the normal state of affairs. In this country we have the illusion that there's always this warm, loving community we belong to, but the other side of that is a sort of exclusiveness and xenophobia, and our food reflects that. Japanese cuisine isn't inclusive at all-infact it's extremely inhospitable to outsiders, to people who don't fit into the community.
On her relation with her husband, Ronald Reagan, as quoted in an interview with Vanity Fair (July 1998), and in Saving The Reagan Presidency : Trust Is The Coin Of The Realm (2005) by David M. Abshire, p. 107
Variant: Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true. It did. I can't imagine life without him.
As quoted in "End of a love story" at BBC (5 June 2004) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/265714.stm
Context: Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are. Thank God we found each other. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true. It did. Forty-six years? Can't imagine life without him.
“The merciful creator created all human beings from the essence of love. Let's all love each other.”
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Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII
Variant: Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive; it can be and in its fullness must be all-inclusive.”
The Renaissance in India (1918)
Context: Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive; it can be and in its fullness must be all-inclusive.
But still there is a great difference between the spiritual and the purely material and mental view of existence. The spiritual view holds that the mind, life, body are man's means and not his aims and even that they are not his last and highest means; it sees them as his outer instrumental self and not his whole being. It sees the infinite behind all things finite and it adjudges the value of the finite by higher infinite values of which they are the imperfect translation and towards which, to a truer expression of them, they are always trying to arrive. It sees a greater reality than the apparent not only behind man and the world, but within man and the world, and this soul, self, divine thing in man it holds to be that in him which is of the highest importance, that which everything else in him must try in whatever way to bring out and express, and this soul, self, divine presence in the world it holds to be that which man has ever to try to see and recognise through all appearances, to unite his thought and life with it and in it to find his unity with his fellows. This alters necessarily our whole normal view of things; even in preserving all the aims of human life, it will give them a different sense and direction.
On how her long-term relationship with Keith Richards ended. As quoted in The Rolling Stones: Off The Record, by Mark Paytress.
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 11.