Quotes on love by Kahlil Gibran.
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elfgroveI'm thinking about Liss-chan's troubles....
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into a seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love posesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
And think not you can direct the course of love,
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Give your hearts but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into a seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love posesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
And think not you can direct the course of love,
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Give your hearts but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
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Date: 2002-02-25 11:26 pm (UTC)That's almost exactly what I try to tell myself whenever I start to feel weak. It's so hard to love unconditionally!
But really, when it's real... You do, whether you're able to show it right or not.
My heart will be full as long as there are people alive who make it that way.
*bighugs*
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Date: 2002-02-26 05:29 am (UTC)Yeah. I just hope everything turns out good for Liss, she's pretty roughed up about all of this.