If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
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Ellen Goodman
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
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Jon Krakauer
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the...
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Henri J.m. Nouwen
What I cannot love, I overlook.
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Unknown
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.
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Paulo Coelho
More Quotes By Albert Camus
And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of...
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
