Angela of Foligno Quotes

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

Angela of Foligno

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• All mankind love a lover.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Mankind
  • Lover

• My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Remember
  • Teacher
  • Name

• I'm a lover of songs.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Songs
  • Lover

• I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Hate
  • Jews
  • Lover

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Beloved
  • You Are
  • Be Hated

• The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Inspiration
  • Being
  • Beloved

• It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Sex
  • Pleasure
  • Lover

• Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

  

  Kabir
  • Friend
  • Lord
  • Beloved

• Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Desire
  • Beloved

• My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • My Life
  • Teachers
  • Transformed

• A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Lover
  • Library Of Wisdom

• And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

  

  Plato
  • Friendship
  • Youth
  • Intimacy

• Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

  

  Plato
  • True
  • Lover
  • Counterfeit

• No oath can be too binding for a lover.

  

  Sophocles
  • Lover
  • Oath
  • Binding

• He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  

  Euripides
  • Forever
  • Lover

• To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Discover
  • Lover
  • Disenchant

• I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Night
  • Lovers

• Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Eyes
  • Expect
  • Beloved

• I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Drugs
  • Died
  • Lover

• We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Space
  • Centre

• We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Family
  • Jesus

• Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • War
  • Deserve

• Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Thoughts
  • Dreams
  • I Think

• By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

  

  Angela of Foligno
  • Lover
  • Beloved
  • Transformed