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Love is the Water of Life

Rumi

Everything other than love for the most beautiful God
though it be sugar- eating.
What is agony of the spirit?
To advance toward death without seizing
hold of the Water of Life.




Quotes of the Day

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
• Henry Drummond


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    No Boy Knows
    by James Whitcomb Riley
    There are many things that boys may know-- Why this and that are thus and so,-- Who made the world in the dark and lit The great sun up to lighten it: Boys know new things every day--