"Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?"

Relationship, Connection, Presence, Observation

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"Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?"

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"If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?"

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea."

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"The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

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"You can't test courage cautiously."

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"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."

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"Silence is not our heritage but our destiny, we live where we want to live."

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"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."

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"People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all."

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"Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet."

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"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark."

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"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?"

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"There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing to it."

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