"Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own."

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"Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own."

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"I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord."

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"First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend."

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"For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine."

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"I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections."

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"In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell."

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"And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord."

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"Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them."

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"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

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"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

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"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Kiss me and you will see how important I am."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."

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"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"All mankind love a lover."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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