“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― La Rochefoucauld
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” ― La Rochefoucauld
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot • Middlemarch
His face turned from white to red as he continued: ‘If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, ‘Somewhere, my flower is there…’ But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darke
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The moment love stops growing, it begins to die.
Jason DeAntonis • How to Love (Mindful Essentials)
For love to flourish, the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over by the thinker or the pain-body and mistake them for who you are.