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“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.”

Ifs World Love Order Left Love Is Laughing Doors Dangerous Thanks Giver Gave Up Coffins Latches Laugh Love

Author:William Sloane Coffin

“No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.”

People World Love Ideas Self Feelings Individual Struggle Dangerous Duty Affection Delusion Virtuous Pretense Self Delusion

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.”

World Love Giving Heart Christian Passion Natural Dangerous Birth Theater Christian Life Delicate Representation Amusement

Book:Pascal's Pensées: Selections

Source: Pascal's Pensées: Selections

“For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.”

Love Long Doe Form Death Certain Hope Waiting Watches Gone Knowing Imagine Minutes Dangerous Son Healthy Saved Exploration Continuing

Author:Marcel Proust

“Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.”

Love Women Love Is Wise Dangerous Danger Foolish Folly One Love

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.”

Love Care Hate Break Talent Dangerous Silly Acquire Labour Unnecessary Quarrels Prudence Indication Breeding Love Hate Uncommon Wanton Good Breeding

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.”

Ifs Love Made States Belief Force Religious Love Is Dangerous Produce Hatred Operations Regulation Introducing Begets Religious Belief Unbelief Like Love

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer