Zdroj: Little Women
— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
Zdroj: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 166.
— Euripidés ancient Athenian playwright -480 - -406 pred n. l.
— William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850
Stanza 11.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)
— Brené Brown US writer and professor 1965
Zdroj: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
— Walther von der Vogelweide Middle High German lyric poet 1170 - 1230
Liebe machet schoene wîp:
desn mac diu schoene niht getuon, sin machet niemer lieben lîp.
"Herzeliebez vrowelîn", line 17; translation from Frederick Goldin German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor, 1973) p. 121.
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
Final Message (6 January 1969).
General sources
Kontext: To love Me for what I may give you is not loving Me at all. To sacrifice anything in My cause to gain something for yourself is like a blind man sacrificing his eyes for sight. I am the Divine Beloved worthy of being loved because I am Love. He who loves Me because of this will be blessed with unlimited sight and will see Me as I am.
— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968
Letter to Dorothy Day, quoted in Catholic Voices in a World on Fire (2005) by Stephen Hand, p. 180.
Kontext: Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.
— Oscar Wilde, kniha De Profundis
Zdroj: De Profundis
— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968
Letter to Dorothy Day, quoted in Catholic Voices in a World on Fire (2005) by Stephen Hand, p. 180.
Kontext: Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.
— Sigmund Freud, kniha Civilization and Its Discontents
Zdroj: Civilization and Its Discontents
— Matthew Arnold, kniha Culture and Anarchy
Zdroj: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
The Way In (2000)
— Guy De Maupassant French writer 1850 - 1893
"Miss Harriet"
Kontext: Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
— Sofia Samatar, kniha A Stranger in Olondria
Zdroj: A Stranger in Olondria (2013), Chapter 6, “The Feast of Birds” (p. 60)
— Noah Levine American Buddhist teacher 1971
Refuge Recovery (2014)
— Walter Hilton English Augustinian mystic. 1340 - 1396
Book II, ch. 22 (p. 160)
The Ladder of Perfection (1494)
