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"Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are. Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words. Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you. Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart."
"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." / "Toutes les fibres de mon coeur la reconnurent et mon âme tressaillit tout entière. Je ne doutais point que, de son côté, elle m'eût également reconnu."
"You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long."
"L'amour est l'ultime signification de tout ce qui nous entoure. Ce n'est pas un simple sentiment, c'est la vérité, c'est la joie qui est à l'origine de toute création."
"Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom."
"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
"Je cherche ce que je ne puis trouver, je trouve ce que je ne cherche pas."
"Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved."
"Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy."
"Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love."
"Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life."
"Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it."
"Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence."
"Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."
"We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation." / "Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."
"Music fills the infinite between two souls."
"The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.
"Love is not a mere impulse; it must contain truth, which is law."
"While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones."
"Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvellous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this spirit is truly known only by love."
"Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict." / "In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time."
"Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest. But this rest itself is an intense form of activity where utter quiescence and unceasing energy meet at the same point in love."
"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."
"Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own."
"We live in the world when we live it."
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." / "Ne pleurez jamais d'avoir perdu le soleil, les larmes vous empêcheront de voir les étoiles."
"Je dormais et je rêvais que la vie n'était que joie. Je m'éveillai et je vis que la vie n’est que service. Je servis et je compris que le service est joie." / "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
"Celui qui plante des arbres tout en sachant qu'il ne pourra profiter de leur ombre, vient de commencer à comprendre le sens de la vie."
"Car l'amour est un vagabond et ses fleurs fleurissent plus volontiers au bord des routes poussiéreuses que dans le cristal des vases."
"L'amour découvre l'extraordinaire dans l'ordinaire. "
"Que je fasse de ma vie une chose simple et droite comme une flûte de roseau que tu puisses emplir de ta musique."
"Si vous fermez la porte à toutes les erreurs, la vérité restera dehors." / "If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out."
"Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!"
"And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well." (Tagore, 1861-1941) [on pense aux philosophes stoïciens, par exemple à Sénèque (-2/65): "La mort est bien lourde pour celui qui meurt trop connu des autres mais inconnu de lui-même." ou à Charles Dickens (1812-70): "And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death." ou à Franz Kafka (1883-1924): "He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."]
"Il en est des conseils comme des médicaments; les plus amers sont les meilleurs."
"Life has become richer by the love that has been lost."
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Un poème d'amour et de réincarnation de Tagore se lit ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/230123/unending-love-amour-sans-fin
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Diverses autres pensées d'amour se lisent ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/170922/lamour-selon-quelques-femmes
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