Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

For time spurred on by jealousy passes with amazing speed. Jealousy occupies the mind more completely than passionate intellectual work. The mind has not a moment of leisure. A victim of jealousy never knows boredom

None but the brave and beautiful can love.

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

Take 2 heaping cups of Patience 1 heart full of Love 2 handfuls of Generosity Sprinkle with Kindness Add plenty of Faith Mix well and spread over a period of a lifetime and serve everybody you meet.

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

I bought into the lie," she said, "that because Darin has a strong, masculine personality he must be the manipulator and I must be the victim. God showed me that it was really more the other way around. By withholding affection, respect, and communication, I often played the role of the manipulator.