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“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”

World Love Stories My Own Written Ready Lovers Stones Quarrels Epitaph

Author:Robert Frost

“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.”

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

“... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.”

People Love Self Done Seems Cold Capacity Stones Bones Dry Indifferent Numb Inhuman Self Absorbed

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”

Way Love Years Pain Faces Water Loses Ability Stones Worn Washing Carving Washing Away

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

Ifs World Love Hands Walks Teach Path Clear Son Stones Your Son

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

“Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.”

Love Heart Wisdom Hours Prayer Impossible Stones And Love

Author:Thomas Merton

“Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.” The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.”

Love Sometimes Whole Age Christian Faces Blood Land Worship Standing Stones And Love Determined Likes Burning Temples Village Knocking Peace And Love Hardened Druids

Author:Brom

“Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.”

Love Wisdom Spirit Love Is Meditation Yoga Stones Wellness

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.”

Love Has Beens Moments Age Mother Father Force Parent Violence Century Baby Birth Concerned Stones Destroying Twentieth Century Stone Age

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”

Men Love Waiting Built Stones True Love Temples

Book:Poems

Source: Poems