“Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.” LoveTwoWarBodyLightStarsWaterLove IsAirHoneyFlashLightningDrowningVoyages Book:Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970) Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)
“Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.” LoveWarHandsPassionEnergyLove IsWeaknessMerePunishmentVanityPoisonRuinedIdlenessDefenceAlchemistCaressCredulityIndebtedSpaniels Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.” ThinkingShouldWarMatterLastsBeautifulLife IsMotherHateLostEnjoySpaceLove IsSonHusbandIncludingBelovedMy HusbandCherishPessimismBeautiful LifeLast DayThose We LoveLife Is BeautifulLost EverythingBeautiful LoveBeautiful NatureHate LifeBeloved Son Author:Alice Herz-Sommer
“Without temptations, it is not possible to learn the wisdom of the Spirit. It is not possible that Divine love be strengthened in your soul. Before temptations, a man prays to God as a stranger. When temptations are allowed to come by the love of God, and he does not give in to them, then he stands before God as a sincere friend. For in fulfilling the will of God, he has made war on the enemy of God and conquered him.” MenInspirationalGivingDoeMadeWarSoulChristianSpiritReligiousLove IsEnemyDivinePrayingStrangerGods WillTemptationYour SoulGod LoveOrthodoxSincereFulfillingDivine LovePraying To GodSincere Friends Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.” WorldWayBelieveWarHelpingUseFeelingsUsedNationsLove IsUnitedCommonGroupsPrayingCitizensContraryGods WillCommon SenseUnited NationsLove MyselfWay Of Love Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words