Thomas Merton once wrote, "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another."
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"I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost." John Philpot Curran
"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort." Mason Cooley
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu [NOTE: This quote never appeared in Lao Tzu's works. The earliest that could be located was in Dean Koontz's 1988 novel Lightning. He attributed the quote to Lao Tzu with no reliable source.]
"My blood alone remains. Take it, but do not make me suffer long." Marie Antoinette
"Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go, but rather learning to start over." Nicole Sobon
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." Anaïs Nin
Alan Lightman said, "The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy."
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places." Ernest Hemingway
Don't do it! Don't do it, Paul!
PWPaul Westin
[holds the gun up to his head] There's nothing left for me here.
Look at his wrist; track marks.
What happened to you in that camp, Paul?
PPaul
It doesn't matter anymore.
Yes, it does. You kill yourself, they get away with it. If you testify, we can shut them down for good.
PPaul
What good? I'm an abomination.
No, you're not. If you want to live your life according to a single message, go ahead. But try John 13:34 instead: "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, you must love one another."
The best way for you to do that is to put that gun down. Paul, you are a victim, and there are others being victimized right now that you can help. Wouldn't Mitchell want you to do everything possible to make sure that nobody else suffered your same fate? Come on. Put it down. [Paul does so and is arrested]
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Charles Caleb Colton
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison once said, "All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."
Oscar Wilde said, "I can resist anything except temptation."
"I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me." Terry Goodkind
"For darkness restores what light cannot repair." Joseph Brodsky
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