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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile, anxious for his native home.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.

On a little study table in my office, there’s a card with a quote from Victor Hugo’s epic novel Les Misérables: My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt...

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

Again, the friendship which draws human beings together in a tender bond is sweet to us because out of many minds it forges a unity.

The soul’s first task is to learn to trust, because our capacity to trust is our capacity to love and be loved, to give and to receive.

Souls are like athletes that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain an...

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness. Love is a union of souls. When one member of a couple suffers from Alzheimer’s, the other doesn’t just go away. Instead, as Lewis puts it, love says, “B...

When we devote no time to the inner life, we lose the habit of soul. If we fail to acquaint ourselves with soul, we will remain strangers in our own lives.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God’s majesty

Love is an agreement on the part of two people to overestimate each other.

None of us complete each other, but we can add a few words to the lives of the people around us to help them understand God’s bigger plan for all of us.

Arwen to Aragorn: "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

There are some men and some women in whose company we are always at our best. While with them we cannot think mean thoughts or speak ungenerous words. Their mere presence is elevation, purification, s...

Weaned from all passing fancies, let my soul praise You, O God, Creator of all. You did not allow my soul to remain attached to corruptible things with the glue of love, attached to what my senses fin...

O God, if there is a God, have mercy on my soul, if there is a soul.

The best mirror is an old friend.