„To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.“

— Rollo May

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„words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.“
— Charles Bukowski
„Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.“
— Cassandra Clare
„The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?“
— Richard Bach
„We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say "We must not wage war." It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.“
— Jr.