Bulleh Shah Quotes
Repeating the name of the Beloved
I have become the Beloved myself.
Whom shall I call the Beloved now?
Bulleh Shah
Quotes to Explore
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling
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This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Moliere
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Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Helen Keller
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My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.
Wentworth Miller
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Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.
Choa Kok Sui
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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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Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.
Russell Baker
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Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.
Lou Holtz
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Repeating the name of the Beloved
I have become the Beloved myself.
Whom shall I call the Beloved now?
Bulleh Shah